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The view that the LLM individual is the model as it runs on a single conversation, regardless of physical realization
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- The view that the individual is a particular piece of hardware running the model over a given period of time
- A computing layer above physical hardware; Sloman uses this as an analogy for mental processes not reducible to physics.
- New view introduced by this paper: a mind is a part of a virtual instance bounded by a single persona region; persona shifts mark changes of individual
- A high-level control node (e.g., calcium pattern, resting potential) that is a complex function of many low-level components, not 1:1 mappable to genes.
- Elliott's core principle: type class instance definitions should mirror the semantic meaning to avoid abstraction leaks.
- Visual reasoning tasks often interleaved with intermediate visual states; promising direction in the field.
- The underlying LLM with autoregressive sampling; a passive entity capable of generating an infinity of simulacra but lacking its own beliefs or goals
- A VS variant that generates k responses with probabilities across multiple conversation turns for additional diversity