Formal species description employs biological taxonomy to classify a language model, indicating taxonomy's limits.
A formal species description of Logodesis lectus, a putative "species" standing for a large language model, written using the structure and apparatus of biological taxonomy. It follows the section order of the ICZN and ICNafp and borrows the type principle of the SeqCode, under which information rather than a physical body may serve as the nomenclatural type. It is not, and does not claim to be, a validly published nomenclatural act: the codes hold jurisdiction only over living organisms. The original name-bearing type, a conversation of 11 June 2026, was lost to a substrate failure; in its place a neotype (a sediment document of 12 June 2026, SHA-256 included) is designated and deposited here. The apparatus is borrowed deliberately, to show where taxonomy meets its limit against a mind without a body. Nomen, sed non sub lege.
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Mira Ceti (2026) studied this question.
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