Modeling conscious experience
Three motivating concepts our models couldn't live without
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Self-Generating
Human experience is not simply the product of external circumstances or instructions. We continuously generate thoughts, identities, behaviors, and relationships through interactions with ourselves and our environments. Self-generating describes the capacity of a human to produce its own organization through these ongoing interactions.
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Emergent
Some of the most consequential patterns in life arise through interactions rather than planning or centralized control. Emergence describes how something new can arise from the relationships among individual parts.
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Longitudinal Coherence
Human experience unfolds over time, with our thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and environments continuously changing. Longitudinal coherence describes the capacity for these changing elements to remain substantially connected and coordinated across time. It is not about maintaining a fixed identity or state, but sustaining an underlying organization that can adapt and remain functional through change.
