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concept:ship-of-theseus-biologicalShip of Theseus (biological)
Metaphor for how bodily identity persists despite constant cellular replacement, maintained by pattern memories.
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- Central claim about self-maintenance through radical component replacement.
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- Ship of Theseus of the bodyrelated_toAnalogy for ongoing somatic and cognitive self-maintenance against degradation.
- Selfletsassociated_withLevin'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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- Searle and Seth's position that consciousness requires specific biological/autopoietic processes; explicitly rejected by CIMC on functionalist grounds
- Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.
- The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
- Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.
- Central concept challenged in paper; traditionally defined by genetic identity or evolutionary units but shown to be more about cognitive organization and information integration.
- Framework treating meaning-making as intrinsic to living systems; supports view of memories as interpreted signs requiring creative interpretation.
- The conventional 20th-century definition: a carbon-oxygen-hydrogen-nitrogen system capable of self-reproduction, healing, and stability over a lifetime.