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question:the-persistence-paradoxThe persistence paradox
Core 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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extracted_from(2024) · Levin, Michael
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- Michael Levinstudies
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- Process Philosophyanswered_byWestern philosophical tradition proposed as solution to Persistence Paradox; conceived self as process not thing.
- Buddhist and Indic conceptions of no-Selfanswered_byEastern philosophical tradition proposing non-duality between Self and world; parallel solution to persistence paradox alongside Process Philosophy.
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- Emotion feature persistence above and beyond the persistence expected from high variance explained alone, computed by subtracting median variance-matched probe persistence
- Set of all sets not containing themselves; central example motivating avoidance-based mathematical foundations.
- Baseline persistence of any probe direction arising from the autoregressive nature of LLMs, not specific to emotion content
- The observation that learned information is retained despite drastic brain remodeling during metamorphosis, demonstrating the plasticity of the Self.
- Robust traits enable underlying degeneracy and drift, contributing to intelligence ratchet.
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- aboutblank_kbPersistence Paradoxconcepts/philosophy/persistence-paradox.md0.838
- aboutblank_kbDoes the current Self cease to exist if an organism changes, and how can identity persist through transformation?questions/does-the-current-self-cease-to-exist-if.md0.822