The basic hallmarks of being a Self are the ability to pursue goals, to own compound memories, and to serve as the locus for credit assignment, at a scale larger than any component.

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• The ability to pursue goals is the core of being a Self.claim0.815
  Goal-directed activity is proposed as the central invariant for all Selves across substrates.
• The key to being an individual is to have a functional structure in which diverse experiences across its components are bound together in a way that generates causal relationships and composite memories that belong to the higher space of the individual and not its components.claim0.797
  Defines individuality in terms of information binding across parts.
• The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.782
  The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
• Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.claim0.777
• A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.claim0.767
• Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.763
  Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
• A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.760
• We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.759
  The outcome of using both methods together.