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claim:self-can-be-understood-as-distributed-distributable-and-dynamic-rather-than-singular-and-enduring

Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.

Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.

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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life

(2021) · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill · Witkowski, Olaf

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Communities (3)

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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.
Scale-free goal-directed agency
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Frameworks treating selfhood as goal-pursuit capacity distributed across nested biological scales, from cellular to organismal levels.

Frameworks (2)

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Mahāyāna Buddhist thought
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Buddhist tradition emphasizing distributed selfhood and identity as co-constituted by interactions with others; ethical foundation for inquiry.
Buddhist philosophy of no-self (anattā)
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Core Buddhist doctrine that selfhood is illusory, constructed from impermanent causal factors, providing philosophical foundation for the entire inquiry.

Concepts (1)

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"A rejection of singular and enduring individuals... enables perceptions of selfhood as distributed/distributable and dynamic."
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Load-bearing synthesis of Buddhist philosophical insight enabling dynamic, non-essentialist models of identity.

Related by similarity (8)

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Distributed/distributable and dynamic selfconcept0.850
Concept of self as extended and co-constituted by interactions, per Mahāyāna.
A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.claim0.817
The Self is a construction—an adaptive, actionable, embodied story that holds components together.claim0.798
Final synthesis: Selves are both constructed and causally real.
The Self is a dynamical construct—not a misleading illusion but a compact perspective maintained by agents under energy/time constraintsclaim0.797
Self as distributed and illusory enables extended identity and prosocial orientation toward others.claim0.796
The self-like character of the environment has a direct impact on us: it nourishes us, supports us, and provides freedom.claim0.795
Mirror-of-the-self effect.
The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.793
The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.claim0.791

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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.md0.825
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What defines a self in the context of chimeric and bioengineered beings with mixed component origins?questions/what-defines-a-self-in-the-context-of.md0.814
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What defines a self, and how does the spatiotemporal scale of goals a system pursues determine its sophistication?questions/what-defines-a-self-and-how-does-the.md0.808
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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.md0.805
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Cognitive Notion Of Selfframeworks/cognitive-notion-of-self.md0.804
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What defines a self?questions/what-defines-a-self.md0.798
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If an organism must change to learn and grow, but change means the original self ceases to exist, how can continuous identity be maintained?questions/if-an-organism-must-change-to-learn-and.md0.796
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Self As Self-Telling Storyconcepts/interdisciplinary/self-as-self-telling-story.md0.795
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Self As Processconcepts/philosophy/self-as-process.md0.794
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Self (Composite, Non-Monadic)concepts/interdisciplinary/self-composite-non-monadic.md0.789
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Selfless Selfconcepts/buddhist/selfless-self.md0.781