The boundary between Self and World is not fixed and can change between generations and within a lifetime — this plasticity is fundamental to life's ability to survive, adapt, and exist as chimeric forms.

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• The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.claim0.833
• The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.828
  Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.820
  The central thesis of the chapter.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.805
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• What is the boundary of self and how do Selves change during an agent's lifetime?question0.804
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.801
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• What is the nature of the boundary between life and mind, and how does it scale across biological and artificial systems?question0.798
  Central open question framing the paper's synthesis.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.798
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.