Swarm Ecology
layer 3 · theory

Teleological saturation (C2)

Conjecture: where hidden goal-directed processes dominate, steering is detectable but its authors are not.

Stated as conjecture C2, Teleological saturation.

Source: the Glossary of Swarm Ecology: Metabolism, Persistence, and the Darwinization of the Datasphere (preprint v1, 2026).