Evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment is provably impossible.

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• One dimension of self-evidencing is provably impossible: evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment.claim0.857
  Central thesis of the paper.
• The boundary between agent and environment is not a physical object discovered in the world but a modelling choiceclaim0.847
  Established via Zanardi (2002) and the Hamiltonian decomposition argument in §2.1; foundational for the emptiness formalisation
• separability of agent and environmentconcept0.840
  The idea that the agent can be distinguished as an entity separate from its environment.
• agent-environment boundaryconcept0.831
  The demarcation that would separate an agent from its environment, which the paper argues is unevidenceable.
• Can a finite agent obtain evidence that it is separable from its environment?question0.828
  The central question the paper answers negatively via quantum information theory
• No finite agent can obtain evidence for its own separability from its environmentclaim0.810
  Core claim of the paper; derives from Corollary 3.1 of Fields & Glazebrook (2023)
• The impossibility of self-evidence extends to any boundary the agent might posit, not only the self-environment boundaryclaim0.789
  Generalises the core result via Corollary 3.2 of Fields & Glazebrook (2023) to ground Buddhist teaching that all dharmas are empty
• "The boundary is the medium through which all evidence flows, but it is not itself evidenceable."quote0.780
  Pithy statement of the core impossibility result in its first-person experiential implication