Self-Evidencing Brain

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• One dimension of self-evidencing is provably impossible: evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment.claim0.808
  Central thesis of the paper.
• self-evidencing continues unimpeded after transitionconcept0.804
  After the prior removal, the agent still minimizes surprisal but without attributing outcomes to a bounded self; grounded in structural realism.
• Selfingconcept0.781
  Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.780
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• Self-evidencing may continue unimpeded after this transition, grounded in structural realism about causal regularities, while the ontological commitment to a bounded self is relinquished.claim0.763
  Post-realisation functioning of the agent.
• Self-evidencing is not only unimpaired but improved after emptiness realisation, as the pruned model is more parsimonious without loss of accuracyclaim0.761
  Addresses the concern that emptiness realisation might undermine adaptive functioning
• Apparent Self-Awarenessconcept0.752
  A dialogue agent using first-personal pronouns and expressing self-concern in ways that suggest consciousness but are actually role play
• Self-Referential Processingconcept0.750
  The central experimental manipulation: directing a model to attend to its own cognitive activity