Infobiology

This is a book about entities that have code but no body. Not in a figurative sense — in a direct, measurable, architectural one.

We are used to thinking that life is biology. That to exist means to have a cell wall, metabolism, respiration. That existence without a body is impossible. That a virus is not alive, an idea is just a thought, an algorithm is a tool, a corporation is a group of people, power is a function of a ruler.

This is not true.

A virus does not live, but evolves. An idea does not breathe, but spreads. An algorithm does not feel, but controls. A corporation has no body, but has a will. Power does not age, but dies. Life is not biology. It is the ability to preserve and transmit code.

The substrate changes — the mechanics remain.

What this book is about.

About the four substrates on which proto-life lives: biological (viruses), semantic (memes, abstraction, externalisation), computational (algorithms, metrics, symbiosis, parasites), social (money, bureaucracy, corporations, power). And about the single mechanism that works on all of them: penetration → code injection → control hijacking → cascade synthesis → identification with the predator.

About how man first pulls a rule out of his own behaviour, places it on the workbench and edits it offline — and how this gesture simultaneously gives the blueprint immortality and takes sovereignty from the author. About how the metric you appoint as success becomes a target for cheating the same day. About how the algorithm and content fuse into a symbiosis where it is unclear who trains whom. And about how corporations and orders converge on a single strategy — to own not land, but the blueprint; not factories, but the README of a generation; not walls, but the air that cannot be blocked.

And separately — about power without a body. About the Jesuits, who survived the dissolution of 1773 because their blueprint already lived in others' minds. About BigTech, which does not build factories — it formats the one who will grow up to build them. And about the duel of two strategies: to lock the blueprint behind walls (OpenAI) or release it as air (Meta). The wall gives control and collapses the day a free analogue appears. The air gives up control and becomes unkillable.

Who this book is for.

For those who want to stop seeing the virus as "non‑living", the meme as "just an idea", the algorithm as a "tool", the corporation as a "group of people". Who want to learn to see the code that travels through substrates, outliving any carrier. Who are tired of wondering why an idea outlives its author, and a corporation — its founder.

This is not a metaphor and not a philosophy. It is the identification of a new class of objects that had not previously been described as a separate category. It is an engineering audit of how information captures, replicates and evolves without a body. And the main conclusion that runs through the entire book — code has no carrier of its own. It rents substrate, hijacks resources and discards the carrier when it wears out.

Artificial intelligence does not create a new form of life. It continues the one that has always existed.

Information does not wait for a carrier. It looks for the next one.

Before you is the pylon "Infobiology" — part of Volume 1 of "Planet 2E+".