Self as distributed and illusory enables extended identity and prosocial orientation toward others.

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• The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.claim0.823
  Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.
• The self can be considered both extendable and illusory in Buddhist thought.claim0.814
  Author assertion: rejection of singular self enables perception of distributed/dynamic selfhood; foundation for affordance augmentation hypothesis.
• "A rejection of singular and enduring individuals... enables perceptions of selfhood as distributed/distributable and dynamic."concept0.809
  Load-bearing synthesis of Buddhist philosophical insight enabling dynamic, non-essentialist models of identity.
• Individual who recognizes oneself as constantly co-constituted by interactions with others will develop prosocial qualitiesclaim0.797
• Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.796
  Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
• The notion of self as illusion, as realized in AI and ALife practices, may contribute to novel fields of affordances for non-human intelligence.claim0.778
  Claim that endowing non-human agents with self-illusion awareness expands their affordance repertoire.
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.773
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• Decreasing the selfing process yields beneficial effects including increased well-being, social connectedness, and prosocial emotionsclaim0.770