Creatures

Creatures, or irrational earthlings, are earthlings who lack a genetically manifested potential for argumentation, meaning that their genome does not determine that they should be capable of taking part in argumentation. In this sense, creatures are disconsidered as agents in juridical matters. One common trait creatures have is that their bodies are not well adapted to the organization of information, meaning that they do not transfer much knowledge to the soul and thus rational action is necessarily partially compromised. There are various clades of creatures:

## Viruses

Viruses are non-cellular forms of life. The micronet of a virus, here meaning the means through which its physical body is connected to its soul, is the first large quantum entanglement network formed by one of the proteins inside of the virus as it was being born. As the connection is established, the cloak of the virus adheres the whole of its body, taking loose control over it. That said, the small amount of information such a simplistic body can transfer to the soul is so pathetic that the virus does not have much agency at all, basically just acting on instinct.

## Prokaryotes

Prokaryotes are unicellular forms of life with no network of entangled microtubules within themselves. Much like with the virus, the micronet of a prokaryote, such as a bacterium, is the first large quantum entanglement network formed by one of the proteins inside of the cell as it was being born. As the connection is established, the cloak of the prokaryote adheres the whole of its body, taking loose control over it. They have more agency than viruses due to having larger bodies and thus more means to be informed, but it is still extremely primitive.

## Protists

Protists are unicellular forms of life with a network of entangled microtubules within themselves. This network is the micronet of the protist and allows for much greater filtering of information, though agency is still primitive.

## Plants

Plants are pluricelluar forms of life who photosynthesize their food. As with all pluricellular forms of life, plant cells have microtubule networks which serve as micronets for personas. That said, even though each individual plant may have trillions of cells, each cell is closed by a cell wall which generally impedes the network from one cell from connecting with that of another. In this sense, each cell has its own persona and soul, all of them communicating through very primitive means to coordinate what little action they can. While the communication should let plants be smarter than protists, the latter at least has free movement, while plant cells do not. In this sense, plants can better understand their environment through their bodies, but are less capable of interacting with it.

## Fungi

Fungi are pluricelluar forms of life who absorb their food into their cells. As with all pluricellular forms of life, fungal cells have microtubule networks which serve as micronets for personas. That said, even though each individual fungus may have trillions of cells, each cell is normally closed by a cell wall which generally impedes the network from one cell from connecting with that of another. In this sense, each cell has its own persona and soul, all of them communicating through very primitive means to coordinate what little action they can. While the communication should let fungi be smarter than protists, the latter at least has free movement, while fungal cells do not. In this sense, fungi can better understand their environment through their bodies, but are less capable of interacting with it. Note that they do sometimes have more freedom of movement as not all fungi species have cell walls, thus creating a partial exception to this rule which is in many ways more similar to sea sponges and especially placozoans.

## Sea sponges

Sea sponges are pluricelluar forms of life who ingest their food into pluricellular cavities wherein it is digested. As with all pluricellular forms of life, poriferous cells have microtubule networks which serve as micronets for personas. While most fungi and basically all plants have their consciousness limited to the cellular level due to cell walls, as an animal the sea sponge lack any cell walls, being generally free to mingle micronets and, more importantly, integrate multiple cells inside a single cloak. This is the defining spiritual distinctive of animals: they consistently have multiple cells within one persona. That said, some sea sponges have highly mineralized bodies, so certain tissues may be isolated from the rest of the body in a way that the cloak can't bridge, leading to one organism having more than one soul, though still much less than the number of cells it has. Poriferous freedom of movements tends to be very limitting and so the advantage of having a large body to agency is not very great when we compare them to fungi.

## Placozoans

Placozoans are pluricellular forms of life who ingest their food into pluricellular cavities wherein it is digested and have no cell walls, thus being animals like the sea sponges and beasts. They do not have the same mineral limitation or movement hinderance that sea sponges have, so their consciousness is unified and their bodies are more free, similar to some fungi with no cell walls. That said, they are much smaller than sea sponges and thus have less of a means to experience the world as their micronets are roughly just as complex.

## Beasts

Beasts are animals with nervous systems, or whose genetic make up determines that they should eventually develop a nervous system. Due to the elasticity and humidity of the neuronal environment, the micronets from different neurons actually entangle, generating a single body-wise micronet that accounts for the whole beast. In this sense, the unity of beast's soul is based on the persona, not the cloak. As the nervous system is a highly complex system that serves as a neural network, beasts are much more intelligent and have much more agency than other animals and earthlings in general.

### Atomized beasts

Atomized beasts are beasts with such a primitive nervous system that they are incapable of realising that the member os their own kin are alive. In this sense, atomized beasts tend to simple, assexual animals like the starfish.

### Dumb beasts

Dumb beasts are beasts intelligent enough to understand that their kin are alive but not smart enough to understand that other forms of life too can be alive. They tend to be highly instinctive, sexually reproducing being with very small nervous systems, such as pigworms, though even some assexual worms know that their kin is alive.

### Ignorant beasts

Ignorant beasts are beasts intelligent enough to understand the patterns of life well enough as to recognize whenever something foreign to their kin is alive but not smart enough to know that even the members of their own kin are conscious and have their own first-person experience of reality, thus being unable to recognize signs of teleology. This includes most ordinary animals we are acquainted with, from ants to dogs.

#### Feral dragons

Feral dragons fit the definition of ignorant beast, but they are distinct from all other creatures due to having evolved not from nature or other creatures but from dragons, a type of monster. Contrary to the other dragon clades, feral dragons are only about as intelligent as a clever horse. Some may classify them as monsters due to their origins.

### Intelligent beasts

Intelligent beasts are the smartest kind of beasts: they can recognize intelligent, conscious agency in members of their own kin, though they do not have the ability to abstract teleology out that only individuals have. In this sense, they can recognize propositions from members of their own kin and respond to them, establishing argumentation at their level, but are hopeless as to arguing with any other kin consistently, which is why they are considered to be creatures. The only known kinds of intelligent beasts are corvid (ravens and crows), columbids (doves and pidgeons), wrasses, oceanic dolphins (including whales and orcas) and apes.