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Affordances

Gibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.

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  • Enactivism
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    Theoretical approach treating cognition and self as emergent from embodied interaction; foundational to the paper's 'selfless self' model.
  • Artificial Life
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    Computational modeling approach studying living/cognitive systems; used to test hypotheses about self-illusion effects without direct intervention.

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  • Mindfulness Meditation
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    Contemplative practice that diminishes sense of stable self; documented to increase well-being and social connectedness.
  • Meditation and contemplative practice
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    Empirical techniques for reducing sense of reified self; show documented benefits in well-being, social connectedness, and prosocial behavior.

Concepts (13)

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  • Environmental affordances
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    Affordances offered by the physical environment, e.g., altered by lucid dreaming.
  • Social affordances
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    The range of possible social actions and interactions available to an individual.
  • Abstract Affordance
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    Software affordances where actions have immediate effects in an abstract world rather than direct physical consequences.
  • J. J. Gibson
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    Psychologist who coined the term 'affordance' to describe the relationship between objects and how they convey use
  • Concept
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    Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design
  • Self As Illusion
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    Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.
  • Lucid Dreaming
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    Phenomenological state where dreamer becomes aware of dreaming; used in Tibetan Buddhist practice to experimentally realize illusory nature of self.
  • coordinating affordance
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    The role played by the price system: enabling members to form mutually compatible plans.
  • Coordination affordance
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    Mechanism by which cognitive glues enable mutually compatible planning across collective members
  • Empowerment
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    Information-theoretic quantification of options available to an agent; functional measure of affordance change.
  • Don Norman
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    Author of 'The Design of Everyday Things' who developed usability theory based on affordances and introduced the term 'signifier'
  • Interface Transparency
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    Degree to which system internals are visible or hidden from the user.
  • Epistemic Affordance
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    Opportunity for information gain presented by a particular course of action.

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