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The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.

Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.

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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life

(2021) · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill · Witkowski, Olaf

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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life
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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.

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Decreasing the selfing process yields beneficial effects including increased well-being, social connectedness, and prosocial emotions
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Both contemplative practices and lucid dreaming can lead to change in affordances.
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Statement that self-illuminating practices alter social and environmental affordances.
Drawing on fields with well-developed models of self in relation to agency can offer new insights.
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Paper's assertion that an interdisciplinary approach integrating Buddhist philosophy, cognitive science, and ALife yields new insights on self.

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Can awareness of the illusion of self augment an agent's affordances?
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Core research question integrating Buddhist insight with AI/ALife frameworks; motivates entire paper.
How and whether insights from contemplative practices and lucid dreaming can be applied to other kinds of minds, particularly AI.
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Sub-question about extending findings from human contemplative science to non-human intelligences.

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