The personal is not a late-comer to blind matter but has been, since the origins of time, a vital substrate underlying matter

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

• Matter itself is not a mechanism: It is a potentially soul-like materiality which is essentially what we call self.claim0.775
  New cosmological assumption #7: the deepest claim about the nature of matter.
• The Self is subject to significant change in real-time, both slow maturation and radical material remodeling.claim0.772
  Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.765
• There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.claim0.764
  Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
• If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.claim0.761
  New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
• We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.claim0.761
• No Privileged Material Substrate for Mindclaim0.760
  Minds not exclusively neural; basal cognition identifies intelligences in single cells, plants, tissues, swarms; brains pre-date neurons evolutionarily.
• 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.claim0.760
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.