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claim:the-ability-to-pursue-goals-is-the-core-of-being-a-selfThe ability to pursue goals is the core of being a Self.
Goal-directed activity is proposed as the central invariant for all Selves across substrates.
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extracted_from(2022) · Levin, Michael
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- Relational self, care & alivenessmembers_ofSelf as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
- Process-based non-essentialist selfhoodmembers_ofSelf as dynamic, care-constituted process; reducing 'selfing' increases prosocial well-being.
- Scale-free goal-directed agencymembers_ofFrameworks treating selfhood as goal-pursuit capacity distributed across nested biological scales, from cellular to organismal levels.
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- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
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- Goal-Directed Activityassociated_withCentral property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.
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- Developmental systems reach invariant target morphology from diverse starting conditions, like a thermostat.
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- Proposed operational definition of a Self within the TAME framework.
- William James' definition of intelligence, 1890, quoted as a cybernetic benchmark.
- An ontological claim that places the self as the essential nucleus of all living structure.
- Load-bearing conclusion: generalized sentience frameworks are essential for ethical and survival-level reasons.
- Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.774Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
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