Personal software

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• Personal computers imply personal software.concept0.845
  Opening statement of the paper's core thesis: individual users should be able to customize computational tools to their specific needs.
• physiological softwareconcept0.788
  Analogy: developmental and behavioral plasticity runs on the bioelectric 'software' layer, with the genome providing the 'hardware' of ion channels and proteins.
• Personal Identityconcept0.782
  The philosophical question of what constitutes identity over time, applied to the problem of what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve
• Personal (as objective quality)concept0.770
  Alexander's central concept: 'personal' is not idiosyncratic but a universal, objective quality inhering in things with deep life
• Personal Justificationconcept0.765
  The sense in which a person is justified in holding a belief, tied to phenomenal consciousness.
• What does it mean for something to be personal?question0.761
  Opening question of the chapter; drives the entire conceptual argument
• Office layout process (Personal Workplace)method0.760
  A 24-step sequence for individuals to design their own office using a cardboard model and a flexible furniture system, as developed for Herman Miller.
• Biological Softwareconcept0.756
  The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code