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Can awareness of the illusion of self augment an agent's affordances?

Core research question integrating Buddhist insight with AI/ALife frameworks; motivates entire paper.

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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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Thomas Doctor
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The view of self as illusory, and awareness of this illusion, may augment and qualitatively change the agent’s affordances.
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Central thesis of the paper that recognizing self as illusion expands the range of possible actions.

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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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Affordances
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Gibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.
Self As Illusion
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Core Buddhist and philosophical concept: self is constructed, impermanent, and distributable rather than singular and enduring.

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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
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The notion of self as illusion, as realized in AI and ALife practices, may contribute to novel fields of affordances for non-human intelligence.claim0.815
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Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
Artificial life will approach the illusion of self not directly, but by replicating its effect within a model.claim0.789
Claim about methodology: ALife simulates mechanisms underlying self illusion.
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