Susan Stepney’s (2025) reconceptualisation of agential chemistry as programmable agential matter presents a potent challenge: how can matter be designed and engineered to be persuadable? This essay explores her provocation by proposing a practical framework for material persuasion by unpacking the key concept of the representational entity (RE) and combining this with two elements. First, I employ Françoise Chatelin’s non-classical mathematics—a representational framework that recasts...
