The Self (Human Self)

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.

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the self (or 'I')
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An 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.
the self
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The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.

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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 I (Great Self)concept0.827
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.
Selfingconcept0.825
Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.claim0.820
human soulconcept0.816
The deep inner aspect of people that morphogenesis touches, used by Alexander as an empirical concept.
Selfless Selfconcept0.813
Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
The I (eternal self)concept0.808
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.
What is the boundary of self?question0.805
Non-Selfconcept0.805
Buddhist doctrine that there is no permanent self; grounds non-duality in AI alignment by eliminating adversarial self-preservation