Eternal self

The deep, enduring self that is related to living things; the part of a person that experiences relatedness, distinct from the everyday self.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

The I (eternal self)
related_tosame_as
Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.
the self (or 'I')
extends
An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
Mirror of the self
associated_with
The phenomenon that objects with more living structure appear to us as more resembling our own eternal self.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

the selfconcept0.790
The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
The I / ultimate selfconcept0.785
The single blinding unity, the ground of being, which living centers connect us to.
The Self (Human Self)concept0.778
The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
Selfless Selfconcept0.768
Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
Self As Illusionconcept0.751
Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.
Non-Selfconcept0.743
Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent self; grounds non-duality in AI alignment by eliminating adversarial self-preservation
Every living structure is composed of thousands of pictures of the eternal self.claim0.735
Conclusion drawn from the two propositions that makes the beings model explicit.
Eternal Life in Centersconcept0.735
The quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry