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concept:selfletsSelflets
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.
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- Active Inferenceassociated_withFoundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
- Autopoiesisassociated_withMaturana-Varela principle of self-maintaining systems that organize themselves through internal feedback; extended here to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
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- Memories as messages between temporal agentsassociated_withLevin proposes viewing memories as stigmergic notes left by past Selflets; parallelizes vertical (temporal) communication with horizontal (social) communication.
- Stigmergic Memory ModelimplementsMemories are stigmergic notes left by past versions of self; communication between temporal slices of the same agent analogous to lateral inter-agent communication.
- Explains why selfhood/self-awareness emerges as a coarse-graining strategy.
- Liquid Brain HypothesisextendsAnt colonies are 'liquid brains' due to shifting connectivity; extended metaphorically to all brains being 'liquid in time' through reinterpreting mental content across moments.
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- Self as a process, not a thingimplementsProcess ontology view of Self, contrasted with static essentialism.
- Ship of Theseus (biological)associated_withMetaphor for how bodily identity persists despite constant cellular replacement, maintained by pattern memories.
- rubber hand illusionassociated_withDemonstration of rapid plasticity of body self-model; example of Self boundary flexibility.
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- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- The model's verbal description of its internal state, which may be accurate or confabulated.
- Structural and functional property exhibited by living systems but currently absent from most engineered machines.
- Judge a design by whether it feels like a picture of your own self, makes you feel your own humanity.
- Raising one's own bid in an auction round with no competing bid since the agent's last bid; a sign of poor auction discipline.
- Technical mechanism enabling AI systems to iteratively examine their own processing.