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Update: someone on the Discord server suggested a summary that I think works:
After spending a day thinking about this I came up with
Ecologic Emulated Complexity
Much of the advanced technology in FA! emulates natural interdependence and evolved synergetic / symbiotic relationships. It's not a smooth mechanical engine, but an interwoven mesh like root networks. While it may have an obvious centerpiece, all that surrounds it has synergetic properties which produces end results greater then any element of it could alone. Complex machines are already analogous to life in many ways (they go through improvements over generations, have complex interrelationships between systems, and belong to families of branching designs).
Ecologic Emulated Complexity is a design science which extends that logic into the domain of ecology and ecosystem services. This has a side effect in that the technology is easier to repair, because it repairs itself, but also that Human empathy for animals and other living things allows them to understand and intuit problems and failures. A technology which grows from the increased understanding of the world, our interdependence, and the skills we needed to create a better world, and then reinforces them.