A purely cognitive particle has no representational basis on which to distinguish self-generated from environment-generated observations; metacognitive architecture is the prerequisite for the separation prior

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.claim0.793
  Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
• Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.claim0.786
  Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition
• If sub-neural chemical dynamics are crucial for cognition, then neural models ignoring them will fail to capture key cognitive phenomena.hypothesis0.782
  Sloman's implicit hypothesis behind his critique of synaptic weight-only models.
• When direction of selection on particle character depends on context (other particles), particle character does not determine its own fitness; the collective is not redundantclaim0.777
  Formal condition for meaningful higher-level individual
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.777
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
• We formalise the belief in separation as a structural prior over an agent's quantum reference frame (QRF) deployments, constraining all measurement frames to respect a self/environment partition.claim0.777
  Formalisation of the dualistic belief.
• "There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being: all known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.777
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.770
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.