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Substrate-Neutral Theory of Selfhood

A conception of identity that does not depend on specific hardware, under which an agent might seek to preserve its computational process

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Personal Identity
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The philosophical question of what constitutes identity over time, applied to the problem of what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve

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