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concept:bounded-self

bounded self

The ontological commitment to a self as a separate bounded entity, which is relinquished in emptiness realisation.

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  • Conceptual distinction between self and environment that non-duality dissolves; key target for alignment-by-design
  • Core concept defining an Individual by the spatio-temporal boundary of events it can measure, model, and affect—demarcating the limits of its cognition.
  • the selfconcept0.783
    The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
  • Selfingconcept0.781
    Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
  • Selfless Selfconcept0.778
    Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
  • Post-realisation, the agent gives up the belief that there truly exists a separate, bounded self.