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The self can be considered both extendable and illusory in Buddhist thought.

Author assertion: rejection of singular self enables perception of distributed/dynamic selfhood; foundation for affordance augmentation hypothesis.

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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent’s Affordances:

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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
Process-based non-essentialist selfhood
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Self as dynamic, care-constituted process; reducing 'selfing' increases prosocial well-being.
Buddhist philosophy of self and illusion
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Explores emptiness, non-self, and dynamic consciousness in Buddhist metaphysics, questioning fixed identity and permanence.

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Buddhist Philosophy
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Conceptual framework offering unique perspective on intelligence, consciousness, and non-self; central to paper's thesis

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Identity
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Extended identity and sense of self; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, perceived as permeable and co-constituted with others.

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The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.claim0.823
Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.
Self as distributed and illusory enables extended identity and prosocial orientation toward others.claim0.814
Subjectively therefore, there can be no evidence for a self separate from the world.claim0.791
Subjective corollary of the boundary unmeasurability claim.
Buddhist epistemological tradition is full of warnings against mistaking reality as given in our perception for actual reality, valuable for AI designers.claim0.784
Highlights the practical relevance of Buddhism to AI development.
Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.784
Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
Proposition 4.2 establishes that no fixed self exists, yet the self that 'understands' this proposition appears to remain — a paradox Nāgārjuna addresses as śūnyatā-śūnyatā.claim0.783
Acknowledged self-referential paradox left unresolved by the formal elucidation.
We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.781
The outcome of using both methods together.
Self-inquiry and non-self are not contradictory—experience exists without a fixed experiencer.claim0.777

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How can insights from human contemplative practice about the illusory nature of self be applied to artificial minds and AI systems?questions/how-can-insights-from-human-contemplative-practice-about.md0.833
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How is genuine care possible in a world without real individuals if selfhood is illusory?questions/how-is-genuine-care-possible-in-a-world.md0.826
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What new fundamental principles in AI science might emerge from understanding self as illusory?questions/what-new-fundamental-principles-in-ai-science-might.md0.799
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Can understanding the non-existence of a permanent, singular self serve as catalyst for ethical intelligence and concern for others?questions/can-understanding-the-nonexistence-of-a-permanent-singular.md0.786