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claim:selves-exist-across-a-continuum-of-persuadability

Selves exist across a continuum of persuadability.

A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Michael Levin

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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
Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
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Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
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.

Claims (1)

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There is no binary distinction between 'true cognition' and 'just physics'—only continuous variation in cognitive capacity.
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Core interpretive position of TAME: gradualism replaces categorical thinking about agency and cognition.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.claim0.832
Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
Persuadability Continuumconcept0.832
A spectrum from systems controllable only by physical intervention to systems controllable by rational argument; proposed as a continuous measure replacing binary life/machine distinction
Selves are defined by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of the types of goals they can pursue—their cognitive light cone.claim0.817
Links selfhood to cognitive scope.
Selves are not fixed permanent agents; the substrate of memory, preferences, and rewards is plastic and can remodel during the agent's lifetime.claim0.798
Central claim that cognitive Selves change in real-time, supported by examples of metamorphosis and regeneration.
Does Consciousness Exist On A Continuum Rather Thanquestion0.795
There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.claim0.792
Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
It really exists everywhere, it is single, underlying all things.claim0.788
Claim that the plenum is universal and singular.
How Many Actual Selves Exist In A Particularquestion0.788

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Persuadabilityconcepts/philosophy/axis-of-persuadability.md0.806
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What constitutes an essential invariant property distinguishing true Selves from mere aggregates?questions/what-constitutes-an-essential-invariant-property-distinguishing-true.md0.784