Self as a process, not a thing

Process ontology view of Self, contrasted with static essentialism.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Process Philosophy
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Western philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
Buddhist and Indic no-Self
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Eastern perspective on non-duality of Self and world.

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Selfing Process
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Self As Process
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Selflets
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Levin's model of continuous cognition as series of frames, each ~100-300ms thick; each Selflet is a temporal agent separated from others by time.
cognitive Selves
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Selves that are dynamical constructs, maintained by continuous reinterpretation.

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.

The process itself is to be part of nature.claim0.821
Selfingconcept0.815
Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
Non-Selfconcept0.815
Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent self; grounds non-duality in AI alignment by eliminating adversarial self-preservation
Individual Processconcept0.810
A locally complete, self-contained creative process that creates a single center from conception to completion, in a continuous sequence.
the selfconcept0.800
The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
Self as Measuring Instrumentconcept0.796
The epistemological core of Alexander's method: the human observer's inner state is a reliable, replicable measuring device for objective properties of the external world
processesconcept0.791
Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
Self As Self Telling Storyconcept0.790