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concept:self-as-illusionSelf As Illusion
Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.
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- Artificial LifestudiesComputational modeling approach studying living/cognitive systems; used to test hypotheses about self-illusion effects without direct intervention.
- Buddhist PhilosophycitesConceptual framework offering unique perspective on intelligence, consciousness, and non-self; central to paper's thesis
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- Lucid Dreamingassociated_withsupportsPhenomenological state where dreamer becomes aware of dreaming; used in Tibetan Buddhist practice to experimentally realize illusory nature of self.
- Affordancesassociated_withGibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.
- Agencyassociated_withCapacity for autonomous action; requires formal definition linking to selfhood, control, and sense of agency.
- Individualityassociated_withFormal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.
- Identityassociated_withExtended identity and sense of self; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, perceived as permeable and co-constituted with others.
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- Core research question integrating Buddhist insight with AI/ALife frameworks; motivates entire paper.
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- Buddhist idea that a person is a conceptual designation rather than a substantial entity.
- The paper's interpretation: Self is an impermanent perceptual construction; agents model causal Selves for others and themselves using the same machinery, enabling expansion of stress-reduction goals to others.
- The ability of reasoning LLMs to review and revise previous reasoning steps during inference
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- The phenomenon that objects with more living structure appear to us as more resembling our own eternal self.