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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life

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  • Thomas Doctor
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  • Olaf Witkowski
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    Co-author; researcher at Cross Labs and Earth-Life Science Institute; contributes to interdisciplinary AI and biology integration.
  • Bill Duane
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    Co-author; independent researcher and practitioner contributing perspectives on Buddhist thought and cognition.
  • Elizaveta Solomonova
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    Co-author; neurophilosopher at McGill University; bridges neuroscience and philosophical inquiry.

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  • Affordances
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    Gibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.
  • Self As Illusion
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    Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.
  • Lucid Dreaming
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    Phenomenological state where dreamer becomes aware of dreaming; used in Tibetan Buddhist practice to experimentally realize illusory nature of self.
  • Contemplative Practice
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    Meditative training that progressively opacifies the self-environment partition by modelling QRF dynamics.
  • Information Theory
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    Framework treating phenomena as information flows and exchanges; adopted by Friedman and others to model design as informational process.

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