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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.

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Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Dukkha, care, and Intelligence

(2023) · Witkowski, Olaf · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1

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Relational self, care & aliveness
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Self as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
Process-based non-essentialist selfhood
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Self as dynamic, care-constituted process; reducing 'selfing' increases prosocial well-being.
Self as dynamic capacity for care and plasticity
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Ontology treating selfhood as emergent from caring relationships and cognitive flexibility rather than fixed essence, emphasizing substrate malleability and resistance to attractor lock-in.

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Selfless Self
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Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.

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A system’s capacity for care—its concern for the alleviation of homeostatic stress—can be seen as constituting its self in the absence of any permanent substance or essence.
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Re-defines self in terms of care dynamics.

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Capacity for care constitutes self in absence of permanent substanceclaim0.883
Levin and authors: self is defined by spatiotemporal scope and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by immutable essence.
No permanent or singular essences exist; agency is process not substanceclaim0.793
Fundamental state of affairs: 'agent' and 'changeless' are mutually exclusive; all candidates for agency (organic, mechanic, hybrid) must change to act.
The capacity for everyone to enter either one from anywhere — to have both belong-to worlds to hand — is the essence of the structure that living processes will generate in society.claim0.792
Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
If we have built systems capable of experience, how do we ensure that experience is not predominantly constituted by suffering?question0.789
Ethical research priority raised by the thesis applied to deployed AI systems
Given our body’s composition as a multi-scale system, it is not necessarily justified to assign consciousness (i.e., ability to suffer) only to one single ‘I’.claim0.785
Argues for distributed consciousness, supporting extension of care.
Consciousness and capacity for suffering may be distributed across multiple scales within composite beings, not limited to single 'I'.claim0.785
Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.claim0.784
Whether a system is conscious depends on features of its internal processes, not merely its behavior or capabilities.claim0.783
Foundational assumption privileging internal indicators over behavioral tests

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How can self and individuality be understood without recourse to permanent, singular essences or substances?questions/how-can-self-and-individuality-be-understood-without.md0.846
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Can intelligent systems be understood without recourse to permanent and singular essences or substances?questions/can-intelligent-systems-be-understood-without-recourse-to.md0.812
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What constitutes a single self or individual being in systems with variable boundaries like embryonic masses or dissociative identities?questions/what-constitutes-a-single-self-or-individual-being.md0.809
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How is genuine care possible in a world without real individuals if selfhood is illusory?questions/how-is-genuine-care-possible-in-a-world.md0.808
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How can systems at multiple scales of organization maintain coherent goals and identity?questions/how-can-systems-at-multiple-scales-of-organization.md0.798
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If there are no truly unitary and enduring agents or selves, why do systems seem to operate as if they were?questions/if-there-are-no-truly-unitary-and-enduring.md0.797
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What is the nature of self and identity in biological systems?questions/what-is-the-nature-of-self-and-identity.md0.787
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How can systems operate as if they were unitary agents when no truly indivisible and enduring selves can be found?questions/how-can-systems-operate-as-if-they-were.md0.787
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How do organisms maintain coherent self-models across continuous molecular turnover and aging?questions/how-do-organisms-maintain-coherent-selfmodels-across-continuous.md0.787
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How many actual selves exist in a particular piece of self-organizing medium?questions/how-many-actual-selves-exist-in-a-particular.md0.782
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What are the consequences of understanding and experiencing the absence of permanent, singular self?questions/what-are-the-consequences-of-understanding-and-experiencing.md0.782
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How do we choose and define meaningful goals without dissolving the Self entirely, while avoiding selfish limitation of concern?questions/how-do-we-choose-and-define-meaningful-goals.md0.780

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A system’s capacity for care—its concern for the alleviation of homeostatic stress—can be seen as constituting its self in the absence of any permanent substance or essence.