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Personal Identity

The philosophical question of what constitutes identity over time, applied to the problem of what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve

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  • Identity
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    Extended identity and sense of self; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, perceived as permeable and co-constituted with others.
  • Philosophical reference on the problem of personal identity, invoked when asking what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve
  • A conception of identity that does not depend on specific hardware, under which an agent might seek to preserve its computational process

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    Idea that users should customize and restructure tools for idiosyncratic needs; central thesis of the paper.
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  • 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.
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    Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.
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  • Opening question of the chapter; drives the entire conceptual argument