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An integrated artificial model can address self-illusion effects on affordances by combining information theory, cognitive science, and philosophy.

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Can Being Aware of the Illusion of Self Augment an Agent's Affordances: Integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Artificial Life

(2021) · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill · Witkowski, Olaf

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Computational modeling approach studying living/cognitive systems; used to test hypotheses about self-illusion effects without direct intervention.

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Can awareness of the illusion of self augment an agent's affordances?
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Core research question integrating Buddhist insight with AI/ALife frameworks; motivates entire paper.

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Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
The notion of self as illusion, as realized in AI and ALife practices, may contribute to novel fields of affordances for non-human intelligence.claim0.855
Claim that endowing non-human agents with self-illusion awareness expands their affordance repertoire.
Artificial life will approach the illusion of self not directly, but by replicating its effect within a model.claim0.855
Claim about methodology: ALife simulates mechanisms underlying self illusion.
The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.claim0.841
Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.
Testing theories of self-illusion requires dual process: using knowledge of human self-experience while testing effects in human and other minds.claim0.815
Author's methodological assertion: integration of contemplative insight with computational modeling.
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Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.787
Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
Apparent paradoxes of self-reference are illusions produced by projecting a time-involving process into a timeless representation, and are resolved when natural time is made explicit.claim0.787
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