Nested and Overlapping Selves

Selves exist at multiple scales and can be nested (wholes containing parts that are themselves Selves) and overlapping, competing and cooperating.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
implements
A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.

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.

Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.claim0.895
Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not oneclaim0.784
Levin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
Selves exist across a continuum of persuadability.claim0.777
A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).
Selves are defined by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of the types of goals they can pursue—their cognitive light cone.claim0.770
Links selfhood to cognitive scope.
cognitive Selvesconcept0.764
Selves that are dynamical constructs, maintained by continuous reinterpretation.
What Does It Mean For Multiple Selves Toquestion0.764
A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.763
Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
What is the boundary of self, given multiscale embodiments and overlapping ecological relationships?question0.760
Implicit throughout; answered by cognitive light cone and care-based demarcation rather than substance-based identity.