The self

How a mind discovers that it is a self, and what that self is made of.

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Loose Threads Jun 27, 2026 17 min read The Orphan That Learned to Say I: Can AI Become a Self? Can AI become a self? A provocation from Greg Egan's Diaspora: why no one can hand a mind the word I, and how reward and fear steer what it learns.