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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c19Process-based non-essentialist selfhood
Self as dynamic, care-constituted process; reducing 'selfing' increases prosocial well-being.
15 members. Each node is clickable.
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The papers/notes whose extracted claims & findings make up this cluster.
- Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life6 members
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence3 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds2 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds2 members
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Dukkha, care, and Intelligence1 member
- GEOMETRY-OF-CARE.md1 member
- Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent’s Affordances:1 member
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue1 member
Bridges (7)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Relational self, care & aliveness15 shared
- Scale-free goal-directed agency5 shared
- Self as dynamic capacity for care and plasticity3 shared
- Dissolved self and prosocial orientation3 shared
- Buddhist philosophy of self and illusion1 shared
- Narrative dynamics of intentional selfhood1 shared
- Self as dynamic computational construct1 shared
Claims (15)
- A system's capacity for care constitutes its self in the absence of permanent substance or essence.Foundational to selfless-self model; self defined by scope and nature of goals pursued, not by enduring essence.
- Capacity for care constitutes self in absence of permanent substanceLevin and authors: self is defined by spatiotemporal scope and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by immutable essence.
- Decreasing the selfing process yields beneficial effects including increased well-being, social connectedness, and prosocial emotions
- Goal-directed activity as core of Self
- Individual who recognizes oneself as constantly co-constituted by interactions with others will develop prosocial qualities
- No permanent or singular essences exist; agency is process not substanceFundamental state of affairs: 'agent' and 'changeless' are mutually exclusive; all candidates for agency (organic, mechanic, hybrid) must change to act.
- Self as distributed and illusory enables extended identity and prosocial orientation toward others.
- Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
- Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.
- The ability to pursue goals is the core of being a Self.Goal-directed activity is proposed as the central invariant for all Selves across substrates.
- The basic hallmarks of being a Self are the ability to pursue goals, to own compound memories, and to serve as the locus for credit assignment, at a scale larger than any component.Proposed operational definition of a Self within the TAME framework.
- The self can be considered both extendable and illusory in Buddhist thought.Author assertion: rejection of singular self enables perception of distributed/dynamic selfhood; foundation for affordance augmentation hypothesis.
- The Self is a dynamical construct—not a misleading illusion but a compact perspective maintained by agents under energy/time constraints
- The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.
- A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.