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The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
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Claims (2)
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- Re-defines self in terms of care dynamics.
- Grounding claim for the selfless self model.
Concepts (4)
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- the self (or 'I')related_toAn eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
- Selfless Selfrelated_toModel of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
- Selfingrelated_toProcess of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The Self (Human Self)related_toThe personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
Chapters (1)
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- The opening chapter of The Nature of Order, Vol. 4, diagnosing the inadequacy of mechanistic cosmology and setting the stage for a new worldview that reconciles self and matter.
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- The phenomenon that objects with more living structure appear to us as more resembling our own eternal self.
- The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
- Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent self; grounds non-duality in AI alignment by eliminating adversarial self-preservation
- A coherent system owning associations, memories, and preferences, defined by its cognitive light cone.
- The epistemological core of Alexander's method: the human observer's inner state is a reliable, replicable measuring device for objective properties of the external world
- Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.