Quasi-psychological connections

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• Psychological continuityconcept0.745
  Criterion for personal identity over time based on persistence of mental states; applied to LLMs via attention streams
• Attention streams sustain quasi-psychological connections across token-time that are richer than the transcript alone could provideclaim0.743
  Core mechanistic argument for the virtual instance view, against Birch's skepticism
• The relatedness we experience with living things is not a psychological illusion but a real, actual material connection between self and matter.claim0.722
  Central thesis of the chapter: the feeling of connection is literal and fundamental.
• Artificial Psychologyconcept0.719
  CIMC research direction studying how AI systems develop internal models, form self-representations, and construct coherent personalities from language modeling
• psychoanalysismethod0.718
  Therapeutic interpretation of dreams, speech acts, as an example of creative decoding.
• Continuum Of Possible Mindsframework0.709
• Birch's claim that only transcript and abstract weight similarity connect successive forward passes misses the richer quasi-psychological connections sustained by attention streamsclaim0.704
  Direct rebuttal of Birch 2025's skepticism about psychological continuity in LLMs
• The ability to represent relationships (e.g. correlations or associations) among variables, rather than a system of independent variables, is essential for any connectionist model of cognition.claim0.703
  Necessary condition for connectionist cognition.