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Reconciles freedom with dynamical determinism: agency preserved through robustness, stability, and creativity of far-from-equilibrium systems.
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- Relational self, care & alivenessmembers_ofSelf as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
- 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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