self-creating

Bringing itself forth

Self-creating describes something that brings itself into existence or generates its own form without external cause.

The concept appears in theology, philosophy, and cosmology: a self-creating universe, the self-creating nature of consciousness.

In everyday use, it often describes processes that sustain or regenerate themselves: The community became self-creating, spawning new projects without outside direction.

psychological

reinvention

Complete self-transformation

transformation · agency · authenticity · intentional · willpower · empowerment

artistic

improvisation

Spontaneous, unplanned creation

unplanned · organic · freeform · emergent · jazz · stream-of-consciousness · surrealist · aleatory · raw · unscripted

philosophical

emergence

Coming into existence

immanent · ontological · becoming · recursive · generative · existential · arising

technological

adaptive

Able to change accordingly

evolutionary · recursive · automation · iterative · dynamic

biological

morphogenesis

Developmental shape emergence

homeostasis · organic · growth · reproduction · embryogenesis · abiogenesis · differentiation · development · adaptation · evolution

Opposites
source of origin

self-creatingmanufactured

Made by machinery

constructed · built · designed · fabricated · produced

causal agency

self-creatingcaused

Made something occur

dependent · contingent · derivative · derived · reliant

creative autonomy

self-creatingcreated

Caused to exist

made · formed · shaped · molded · fashioned

Family

self, create, creating, created, creates, creation, creations, creative, creatively

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G