Selfless Self

Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Enactivism
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Theoretical approach treating cognition and self as emergent from embodied interaction; foundational to the paper's 'selfless self' model.

claim

A system's capacity for care constitutes its self in the absence of permanent substance or essence.
supports
Foundational to selfless-self model; self defined by scope and nature of goals pursued, not by enduring essence.
No permanent or singular essences exist; agency is process not substance
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Fundamental state of affairs: 'agent' and 'changeless' are mutually exclusive; all candidates for agency (organic, mechanic, hybrid) must change to act.

concept

Cognitive Light Cone
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Concept defining self by the spatiotemporal scale and nature of goals a system can pursue; limits of concern demarcate identity.
the self
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The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
Non-Self
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Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent self; grounds non-duality in AI alignment by eliminating adversarial self-preservation
"Agent" and "changeless" are mutually exclusive.
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Load-bearing observation establishing that all agency requires change; refutes permanent-substance models of self.

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.

Selfingconcept0.847
Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
the self (or 'I')concept0.822
An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
The Self (Human Self)concept0.813
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.
Self-Organizationconcept0.793
Spontaneous emergence of long-range order in networks; modeled as neural and basal cognition.
Self-organisationconcept0.792
Phenomenon of spontaneous long-range order emerging from local interactions; central phenomenon explained by topological constraints
Selfing Processconcept0.787
Self Awarenessconcept0.784
Self-attentionconcept0.783
A form of key-query attention within a single input sequence; core to Transformers.