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concept:personal-identityPersonal 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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- Identityrelated_toExtended 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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- Features that activate when the model is asked about itself, invoking AI tropes and anthropomorphization.
- Idea that users should customize and restructure tools for idiosyncratic needs; central thesis of the paper.
- The strongest version of relatedness, where one feels actual identity with a natural entity, not mere identification.
- The sense in which a person is justified in holding a belief, tied to phenomenal consciousness.
- 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.
- Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- Opening question of the chapter; drives the entire conceptual argument