Psychological explanation of I

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The use of 'I' is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousnessquote0.759
  GPT-4 ChatGPT's own response (4 May 2023) to queries about first-person pronoun use, illustrating fine-tuned self-description
• The I, in some form, exists.claim0.743
  Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
• The I (ground)concept0.740
  The fundamental self, ground, or substratum underlying all existence; a real thing, a blinding unity, accessible through inner light.
• The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.738
  The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
• Cognitive similarity explanationconcept0.737
  The positivist view that relatedness is merely structural resemblance between cognition and object; Alexander rejects it as insufficient.
• Narrative Explanation and the Dynamics of Actionconcept0.737
• Intelligence Amplification (IA)concept0.734
  The idea of using machines/systems to magnify human intellectual capability, early AI concept tied to Alexander's Notes.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.733
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem