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framework:process-philosophyProcess Philosophy
Western philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
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- Alfred Whiteheadassociated_withstudies
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- Self as a process, not a thingimplementsProcess ontology view of Self, contrasted with static essentialism.
- Persistence Paradoxanswered_byCore logical paradox: if a species fails to change it dies; if it changes, it ceases to exist. Same applies to individuals.
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- Levin proposes viewing the Self not as illusion but as a compact model created and maintained by agents; captures the fact that thought forms survive through architectural reinterpretation.
- Reframes fear of replacement as a failure of identity maturity
- Advocates for process philosophy as the appropriate framework for navigating AI, chimeras, and identity change
- Concluding synthesis claim.
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- The persistence paradoxanswered_byCore logical puzzle: if an agent does not change, it dies; if it changes, the self ceases to exist. Applies to all scales from organelles to evolutionary lineages.
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- Foundational framework consisting of systems (wires), processes (boxes), and composition (wirings); basis for quantum and compositional reasoning.
- Core framework: aesthetics of activity from the perspective of the actor, including self-reflective experiences and perception of external world as part of activity.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- Philosophical field dealing with nature of mind, self, and consciousness.
- A process that heals the world by generating living structure, synonymous with living process.
- The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
- A generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
- Artifacts designed to bring about process-aesthetic experiences; primary aesthetic properties emerge in the enactor's activity.