Michal Levin’s paper The Computational Boundary of a “Self” seems quite relevant re identity fusion. The paper argues that larger selves emerge rather readily in living systems but it’s not quite clear to me whether that would be an evolved feature of biology or somehow implicit in cognition-in-general. Disambiguating that seems like an important research topic.
Michal Levin’s paper The Computational Boundary of a “Self” seems quite relevant re identity fusion. The paper argues that larger selves emerge rather readily in living systems but it’s not quite clear to me whether that would be an evolved feature of biology or somehow implicit in cognition-in-general. Disambiguating that seems like an important research topic.