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concept:ship-of-theseus-of-the-body

Ship of Theseus of the body

Analogy for ongoing somatic and cognitive self-maintenance against degradation.

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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.

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  • 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.
  • Body Schemaconcept0.665
    Sensorimotor representation of the body for action planning; the self-prior is argued to be functionally analogous to it
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  • Embodimentconcept0.659
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  • Heredityconcept0.657
    The transmission of traits from parents to offspring via the genetic material.
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    The deep inner aspect of people that morphogenesis touches, used by Alexander as an empirical concept.