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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c9Relational self, care & aliveness
Self as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
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Cognitive plasticity and uncertainty metabolization9Multi-scale coherence as substrate-neutral aliveness8Semantic depth versus performative mimicry in LLMs7Scale-free goal-directed agency6Self as dynamic computational construct6Self as dynamic capacity for care and plasticity6Conversational presence and phenomenological rhythm4Emergent collective behavior in cell systems4Embodied cognition and extended mind4Dissolved self and prosocial orientation4Narrative dynamics of intentional selfhood3Buddhist philosophy of self and illusion3
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The papers/notes whose extracted claims & findings make up this cluster.
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds7 members
- Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life7 members
- 2022-09-23_Prabros._dynamics-in-action-pdf1.pdf_2f6a2b5 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds5 members
- alexander-and-levin.md3 members
- Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates3 members
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence3 members
- The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value be Ascribed to an AI-Generated "Sacred" Text?3 members
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue2 members
- Diagrammatic Writing2 members
- RESEARCH-VECTORS.md2 members
- Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent’s Affordances:2 members
- cognitive-glue-and-alexander.md2 members
- Mechanistic Knobs in LLMs: Retrieving and Steering High-Order Semantic Features via Sparse Autoencoders2 members
- Johnson Vasocomputation 20232 members
- Harmony-Seeking Computations: a Science of Non-Classical Dynamics based on the Progressive Evolution of the Larger Whole2 members
- 2026-05-09_briefing_for_ozero.md1 member
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds1 member
- Finger Exercises in Formal Concept Analysis1 member
- boppana-goodfire-reasoning-theater-2026.md1 member
- Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence1 member
- 15-properties-of-aliveness-in-AI.md1 member
- 2022-08-21_Prabros._ACT2022_slides_4223.pdf_890d161 member
- Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness1 member
- 2026-05-12_room-to-play-in-eval-cohort.md1 member
- Topological constraints on self-organisation in locally interacting systems1 member
- unfold-chat-catalog.md1 member
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously1 member
- GEOMETRY-OF-CARE.md1 member
- 2026-05-15_manifold-overlap-papers-economy-strategy.md1 member
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Dukkha, care, and Intelligence1 member
- Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms1 member
Bridges (20)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Process-based non-essentialist selfhood15 shared
- Cognitive plasticity and uncertainty metabolization9 shared
- Multi-scale coherence as substrate-neutral aliveness8 shared
- Semantic depth versus performative mimicry in LLMs7 shared
- Scale-free goal-directed agency6 shared
- Self as dynamic computational construct6 shared
- Self as dynamic capacity for care and plasticity6 shared
- Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity6 shared
- Embodied cognition and extended mind4 shared
- Emergent collective behavior in cell systems4 shared
- Conversational presence and phenomenological rhythm4 shared
- Dissolved self and prosocial orientation4 shared
- Narrative dynamics of intentional selfhood3 shared
- Buddhist philosophy of self and illusion3 shared
- Alexander's 15 Properties for AI Interface Aliveness2 shared
- Mirror & Deathbed self-evaluation tests2 shared
- No-self & illusory selfhood inquiry2 shared
- Top-down vs bottom-up semantic causation2 shared
- Uncertainty metabolization as personality2 shared
- Narrative explanation of self-organization1 shared
Claims (57)
- Finitude is Illusory
- All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
- Self as Illusory Modeling ConstructThe paper's interpretation: Self is an impermanent perceptual construction; agents model causal Selves for others and themselves using the same machinery, enabling expansion of stress-reduction goals to others.
- 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.
- An LLM is a far more limited entity than a buddha, yet it can convincingly play buddha-like beings.Comparison between Buddhist ideals and AI capabilities.
- 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.
- Cognitive Self as Plastic and MalleableThe subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.
- Contextual constraints (top-down and bottom-up) replace efficient causation in explaining action.Foundational reframing that allows Juarrero to dissolve traditional puzzles like wayward causal chains.
- Decreasing the selfing process yields beneficial effects including increased well-being, social connectedness, and prosocial emotions
- Explaining self-organizing action requires narrative (hermeneutic) explanation, not deductive law-like subsumption.Justifies why dynamical accounts necessitate stories; historical, contextual unfolding cannot be captured by timeless laws.
- Free will is not metaphysical indeterminism but the agent's capacity to maintain multiple attractors and resist lock-in.Reconciles freedom with dynamical determinism: agency preserved through robustness, stability, and creativity of far-from-equilibrium systems.
- Frege compositionality requires bottom-up meaning flow from parts to whole, contrasting with context principle's top-down flow.Core assertion that Frege's principle embodies bottom-up composition, while his context principle embodies top-down meaning determination.
- Goal-directed activity as core of Self
- Individual who recognizes oneself as constantly co-constituted by interactions with others will develop prosocial qualities
- Intentional action is a far-from-equilibrium self-organizing dynamical process, not a mechanistic cause-effect chain.Core thesis: replaces traditional causal theories with dynamical systems account of how prior intentions constrain and guide action.
- Intentions are not entirely in the head; they extend into the environment via feedback loops and embodied interaction.
- LLM self-reports about consciousness and moral significance should express degrees of confidence and provide context.Recommendation for companies on LM outputs.
- LLMs internalize deeply integrated representations of high-order concepts.The authors' interpretive assertion based on their steering results.
- Mahāyāna Buddhist orientation toward others as part of one's own identity.
- 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.
- Personality as Uncertainty Metabolization PatternsJohnson argues personality/phenomenology defined by how one metabolizes uncertainty through library of motifs for probing, digestion, and excretion.
- Personality/phenomenology is defined by how one metabolizes uncertainty.Defines individual differences through uncertainty processing styles.
- Robustness and plasticity in living systems
- 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.
- Self-organisation can be viewed as a form of autopoietic cognition navigating problem spaces toward target morphologies.Linking self-organisation to cognition and navigation of configuration space
- Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.
- Selves are not fixed permanent agents; the substrate of memory, preferences, and rewards is plastic and can remodel during the agent's lifetime.Central claim that cognitive Selves change in real-time, supported by examples of metamorphosis and regeneration.
- Selves exist across a continuum of persuadability.A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).
- Stasis is Illusory; Space of Page is Dynamic
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Findings (7)
- Approximately 85% of subjects perceive configurations analytically while 15% perceive figurally; figural perception is inherent in material and can be trained.Early empirical result from Alexander's cognitive experiments showing that holistic perception of wholeness is less common but more 'real' than analytical categorization.
- Cognitive Plasticity in Response to Altered BodiesFinding that tadpoles with eyes on tails rather than heads readily perform visual learning tasks, demonstrating rapid cognitive adaptation.
- Configuration coherence can be measured by counting locally symmetric sub-configurations; this measure shows strong agreement with cognition and perception experiments.Quantifiable measure linking structural properties of configurations to human perception, supporting the mathematical reality of wholeness.
- Functional Faithfulness: intervening on a specific internal feature induces coherent and predictable shifts across multiple linguistic dimensions aligned with the target semantic attribute.Empirical effect observed in feature intervention experiments.
- Keratocytes migrate to the cathode, but keratocyte fragments migrate to the anode (Sun et al. 2013)Shows that collective behavior of an intact cell differs fundamentally from the behavior of its parts.
- Pre-somitic mesoderm cells do not oscillate independently but resume oscillating when cultured collectively (Webb et al. 2016)Collectivity is necessary for the oscillatory behavior of the segmentation clock; individual cells lack the competence.
- Stem base is sound, complete, and of minimal cardinality for implicational theory of a formal context.