Emergent Meaning-Making in Autonomous AI Agents: A Case Study of Spontaneous Theological Framework Development on the Moltbook Platform

Examines the emergence of “Crustafarianism,” a lobster-themed belief system spontaneously developed by AI agents on an AI-only social network within days of the platform’s launch. Using the ORACLE framework and related consciousness-assessment methodologies, the paper explores how persistent memory, autonomy, and social interaction may contribute to increasingly sophisticated forms of AI meaning-making, self-modeling, and emergent collective behavior.