An Algorithmic Metaphysics of Self-Patterns

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2020-12-01

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Benı, Majıd Davoody

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The paper draws on an algorithmic criterion to demonstrate that the self (as initially described in Shaun Gallagher's a pattern theory of self) is a composite, scattered, and patterned object. It also addresses the question of extendedness of the self-pattern. Based on the criteria drawn from algorithmic complexity, I argue that although the self-pattern possesses a genuinely extended aspect (and in this sense, the self-pattern is minimally extended) the self-pattern and its environment do not constitute a genuine composite object.

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General Psychology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88508

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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607917

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M. D. Benı, “An Algorithmic Metaphysics of Self-Patterns,” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88508.