separability of agent and environment

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• The separability of agent from environment is permanently unevidenceable.claim0.906
  Consequence of the no-self-measurement result; the boundary cannot be empirically established.
• agent-environment boundaryconcept0.842
  The demarcation that would separate an agent from its environment, which the paper argues is unevidenceable.
• Evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment is provably impossible.claim0.840
  Central thesis: the self-environment cut cannot be self-evidencing.
• Can a finite agent obtain evidence that it is separable from its environment?question0.822
  The central question the paper answers negatively via quantum information theory
• No finite agent can obtain evidence for its own separability from its environmentclaim0.801
  Core claim of the paper; derives from Corollary 3.1 of Fields & Glazebrook (2023)
• The boundary between agent and environment is not a physical object discovered in the world but a modelling choiceclaim0.798
  Established via Zanardi (2002) and the Hamiltonian decomposition argument in §2.1; foundational for the emptiness formalisation
• Organism-environment inseparable wholeconcept0.756
  Haldane's idea that organism and environment form a single inseparable system; cited as an example of wholeness in biology.
• Agentconcept0.750
  Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment