The Self is a dynamical construct—not a misleading illusion but a compact perspective maintained by agents under energy/time constraints

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• The Self is a construction—an adaptive, actionable, embodied story that holds components together.claim0.800
  Final synthesis: Selves are both constructed and causally real.
• Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.797
  Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
• A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.claim0.794
• The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.claim0.792
  The epistemological grounding of the mirror-of-the-self test.
• An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence.hypothesis0.786
  Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
• Selfhood is constituted by the spatio-temporal scale and nature of goals pursued (cognitive light cone), not by permanent substance or essence.claim0.786
• The Self is subject to significant change in real-time, both slow maturation and radical material remodeling.claim0.778
  Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
• We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.777
  The outcome of using both methods together.