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What is a machine spirit?

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What is a machine spirit?
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>>46017734
A miserable little pile of binary!
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>>46017734
operating system
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>>46017734
The term "Machine Spirit," is likely a vague and slightly fallacious classification that the Adeptus Mechanicus have given to a wide variety of phenomena, from advanced, adaptive software protocols to fragmented AI. The belief that all machines have a Machine Spirit is likely false, as effective as the rites that the AdMech undergo all the time (based off useful principles but sometimes misguided or completely pointless.)
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>>46017734

The combined nature of organic and inorganic components inside of a machine to circumvent the use of more advance A.I or abominable intelligence.

Some control systems use the brains and nervous systems of animals while others make use of those of servitorized humans. In a way this acts as a "shield" as now the machine has a soul to provide some measure of defense against corruption as even machines can be completely taken over and possesed of daemons.

whether or not they actually understand how that works is anyone's guess and everything I've said is just my own head cannon on how the 40k universe works.
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>>46017734

I think some of the lore states its a kind of biological AI system in certain machines

Like the story of the land raider that fought on for a few days unmanned because its machine spirit was still intact
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>>46017814
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>>46017896
Cyborg-brain?
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>>46017734
Uplifted personality matrix
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>>46018008
Looks like Soma.
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>>46018039
Correct!
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>>46017746
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>>46017734
Depends on who is writing about it. Some 'canon' authors it's a computer. Some write it as a pickled brain in a jar wired to the thing. And sill others write it as an actual machine ghost. GW and BL have too many writers outing their own spin on things to give a concrete answer.

Also fuck yeah Kaban Engine.
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The Soul aspect of our technology which prevents abominable intelligence.
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We don't really know, so I'm just going to say it's Actually Secretly Tzeentch and then masturbate over how cool and unbeatable Tzeentch is
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>>46020582
Just remember, everything is propaganda, so it is all true and untrue at the same time.
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>>46017734
The V O I D ~ D R A G O N
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>>46020582
Fucking this.
I have seen "canon" answers saying it's everything, but end of the day it's whatever the author wants it to be that day. Just like everything else in 40k.
So to answer your question op, a machine spirit is the sentient living soul that resides in a bolter, it's the human brain powering the computer of a land raider, it's the fully sentient AI that controls a titan, it's the basic OS that runs on a dataslate. The machine spirit is whatever your soul wants it to be.
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>>46017734
It's the literal Ghost in the machine
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>>46022305

Though none of these need necessarily be mutually exclusive. Imagine AI warring with living brain tissue , animistic souls and fragments of an alien god at once inside a piece of technology. Add demons to the mix if it's chaos tainted.

No wonder 40K technology decides to shit out all the time unless it has regular exorcisms and rites of purity.
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>>46017734
software wise think windows 10 Cortana infused with the warp (hence why its maintenance includes rites of purity and etc)
hardware wise it's anything and everything and that's including using the human brain as a cpu.
everything else is the authors interpretation
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