#selfhood
Concepts exploring "selfhood"
The Reverse Prompt
Most AI is engineered to help you stay who you already are. The reverse prompt flips the relationship: you give the AI permission — and the data — to ask the questions you don't want, and to keep asking until you answer. Same surveillance substrate, opposite vector of consent.
🌱 seedlingContinuity of the Recognition
The recognition that a person is composed — not located — keeps recurring across eras under different names. The schema changes with the substrate of the era; the underlying claim does not. The current debate over AI consciousness is one more turn of a wheel that has been turning for at least 123 years.
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