A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.

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• The Self (Human Self)concept0.820
  The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
• the selfconcept0.820
  The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
• Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.817
  Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
• The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.812
  The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
• The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.claim0.795
• The Self is a dynamical construct—not a misleading illusion but a compact perspective maintained by agents under energy/time constraintsclaim0.794
• the self (or 'I')concept0.791
  An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
• Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.claim0.790