Separation Prior (sigma)

Structural prior over QRF deployments constraining all measurements to respect a self/environment partition; formalisation of the belief in a separate self

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Bayesian Model Reduction (BMR)
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Formal mechanism by which the separation prior sigma is pruned from the generative model

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A QRF-induced sectorisation plays an analogous role to a coordinate system in general relativity: pragmatically indispensable but ontologically unconstrained
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Clarifying analogy for why separation belief can be pragmatically useful without constituting evidence for ontological separation

Concepts (5)

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Avidya (Ignorance)
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Buddhist concept formalised as the transparent presence of the separation prior sigma; enforcement of non-contextuality on an inherently contextual boundary
Metacognitive Particle
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System that encodes beliefs about a subset of its own internal states; prerequisite for the emergence of the separation prior
Phenomenal Transparency
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Metzinger's concept applied to sigma: the agent looks through the separation prior without seeing it as a construct
Sectorisation of the Boundary
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Partition of N boundary qubits into B_self and B_env; formal counterpart of the felt sense of a separate self
Progressive Opacification
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Process by which contemplative practice converts the transparent separation prior sigma into a representable, examinable variable

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Sectorisation of the Boundary
~Samskara (Conditioned Formations)· buddhist

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The separation prior sigma is a self-reinforcing prior that gains precision simply by being used, decoupled from whether its use remains optimalclaim0.874
Explains developmental entrenchment of the separation prior via habit dynamics in active inference
Self-Priorframework0.772
The key novel contribution: an internal model that learns the density of familiar multisensory experiences and drives mark-removal behavior through mismatch with the free energy principle
We formalise the belief in separation as a structural prior over an agent's quantum reference frame (QRF) deployments, constraining all measurement frames to respect a self/environment partition.claim0.753
Formalisation of the dualistic belief.
The belief in separation is a structural prior over an agent's quantum reference frame (QRF) deployments, constraining all measurement frames to respect a self/environment partition.claim0.746
Formalization of the sense of self as a QRF constraint.
The self-prior operates as an internal criterion for distinguishing self from non-self, without external reward or explicitly computed sticker locationclaim0.743
Central interpretive claim of the paper, supported by EFE decrease after sticker removal
Such priors suppress the inherent contextuality of the boundary.claim0.734
Explains why the boundary appears fixed: the prior hides its context-dependent nature.
separation from realityconcept0.734
A state caused by disorderly, dead environments where people lose connection to everyday human events and freedom.
prior removal as formal counterpart to emptinessconcept0.733
The elimination of the self-environment partition prior is proposed as a formal model of the Buddhist realisation of emptiness.