Individuality

Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Integrated Information Theory
implements
Tononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.
Buddhist Philosophy
cites
Conceptual framework offering unique perspective on intelligence, consciousness, and non-self; central to paper's thesis

concept

Evolutionary Individuality
related_to
Property where evolution of the whole is non-decomposable function of evolution of parts; central to understanding ETIs.
Self As Illusion
associated_with
Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.
Synergistic Information
supports
Information-theoretic measure (Edlund et al.) characterizing interdependencies in agent-environment systems.

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.

Organismic Individualityconcept0.847
Property where development and behavior of whole is non-decomposable function of component parts; distinct from genetic individuality.
Design For Individualityframework0.847
Individual intelligenceconcept0.838
Intelligence typically associated with a single organism and its nervous system; argued here to also be a product of collective composition.
Biological Individualityconcept0.822
Central concept challenged in paper; traditionally defined by genetic identity or evolutionary units but shown to be more about cognitive organization and information integration.
Information Theory Of Individualityframework0.821
Formal framework by Krakauer et al. (2020) for defining an individual based on information theory.
Practicalityconcept0.802
The directness of motivation by practical concerns, characteristic of living processes in the examples.
Uniquenessconcept0.801
The property that every place generated by a living process is inevitably unique due to its adaptation to specific conditions.
Agency, Freedom, and Individualityconcept0.799