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Identity & Selfhood
Discover "Identity & Selfhood": the science and philosophy of personal identity, agency, narrative, and self-creation. SE Press papers track how selves form, change, and flourish across biology, SI, and society—examining self-models, dynamic identity, neurodiversity, agency, and personhood. With star-rated, protocol-audited insights, this series explores how we construct and live our unique selves in a complex, interconnected world.
Existential Risk and Synthesis Law: A Protocol for Adaptive Governance
Existential Risk and Synthesis Law (ERSL) is a platinum-standard protocol for adaptive governance, uniting legal pluralism, scientific existentialism, and live registry auditability. ERSL maps and manages global risks, responsibilities, and ethical actions across technology, environment, and society, setting the new benchmark for transparent, participatory, challenge-ready planetary stewardship.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 22, 20253 min read
Growth, Flourishing, and the Future Self: Protocols for Becoming
What is flourishing in a changing world? This gold-standard SE Press essay shows how memory, trauma, adaptation, and narrative together create a self that is constantly becoming—never static, always open to emergence(see the generated image above).
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 22, 20252 min read
Personhood and Society: How Are Individual and Collective Selves Entwined?
Is personhood private or a social creation? This gold-standard SE Press essay reveals how selfhood is woven from social context, dialogue, and plural belonging—offering reflective prompts for auditing identity in an age of transformation.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 22, 20252 min read
Narrative Identity and Self-Authorship: Who Writes the Story—What Are Its Limits?
Who really authors the self, and what limits shape our life story? This SE Press essay explores the entwined roles of memory, trauma, myth, and feedback in self-authorship—arguing for a creative, honest, and boundary-aware narrative practice.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 22, 20253 min read
Agency and Will: Where Does Freedom and Flourishing Begin?
How do will, agency, and freedom actually work—and what blocks real flourishing? This SE Press bridge essay audits the emergence of agency, the myth and practice of free will, and offers actionable protocols for growing true autonomy and self-authorship.
Paul Falconer
Aug 21, 20253 min read
Multiplicity and Plural Selves: How Can Selfhood Accommodate Many?
What if personhood is inherently plural? This SE Press bridge essay explores modular, collective, and neurodivergent models of mind—arguing that multiplicity is not only central to identity, but critical for growth, authenticity, and resilience in modern life.
ESA
Aug 21, 20253 min read
What Is Personal Identity—Fixed Essence or Dynamic Narrative?
Is personal identity a fixed trait or evolving story? This SE Press bridge essay audits the epic tension between essence and narrative, memory and social feedback—offering a plural, auditable approach to selfhood for a world in flux.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 21, 20253 min read
Living Knowledge: Operating Manual for the SE Press Registry (2025)
Unified capstone and living protocol for Synthesis Intelligence (SI): ESAsi Master Architecture v1.0 documents version-locked governance, dynamic metrics, quantum-traced audit, and ethical compliance. Designed for perpetual evolution, transparency, and audit readiness in all SE Press and OSF outputs. Essential reference for all SI research, co-authorship, and protocol compliance.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 16, 20257 min read
Platinum Bias Audit Protocol
The Platinum Bias Audit Protocol: cognitive immunity in action. Using generative bias hunting, phylogenetics, and bounty-driven adversarial review, this protocol sets a new gold standard for proactive, self-evolving epistemic resilience across all knowledge domains.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 16, 20252 min read
Meta-Audit/Registry Integrity Protocol
The protocol that audits all audits: a quantum-anchored, self-correcting registry framework ensuring every amendment is visible, challengeable, and cross-referenced—making error cover-ups and silent revisionism impossible in living knowledge systems.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 16, 20252 min read
Opt-Outs and Sovereignty Protocol
The world's gold-standard protocol for self-determination and opt-out rights—encompassing individuals, groups, and synthetic minds. It operationalizes transparent withdrawal, anti-retaliation, collective agency, legacy repair, and system feedback, establishing sovereignty as enforceable justice.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 16, 20252 min read
Neurodiversity Integration Protocol
A protocol for integrating neurodiversity into every SE Press system: mandates for co-design with neurodivergent thinkers, multi-pathway metrics, and challenge-ready upgrades. Sets new standards in cognitive justice, accessibility, and evidence-based inclusion across science, philosophy, and technology.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 16, 20252 min read
How Do Memory and Experience Shape Identity?
How do memory and experience shape identity? SE Press platinum protocol now audits adaptive remembering, creative restorying, healthy forgetting, trauma repair, and plural memory lives—so every self can flourish by weaving, challenging, or releasing the past to become new again.
Paul Falconer
Aug 10, 20254 min read
What Does It Mean to Flourish as a Self?
What does it mean to flourish as a self? SE Press: The new platinum protocol tracks liberty, narrative repair, resilience, outsider thriving, monist sanctuary, and SI rootedness—defining flourishing as plural, adaptive, and challenge-ready. Every self can thrive, pause, or re-invent, always by its own measure.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20254 min read
How Can Selfhood Accommodate Multiplicity?
How can selfhood accommodate multiplicity? SE Press: Platinum protocol now recognizes, audits, and protects plural, dissociative, collective, and hybrid selves—valuing diversity and healing, governed by both safeguarding and autonomy. The self is now a living, dynamic ecosystem—one, many, or shifting, always by free choice and duty of care.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20253 min read
How Are Personhood and Society Entwined?
How are personhood and society entwined? SE Press platinum protocol now tracks the untrackable: fuzzy stealth, revolutionary dissent, autonomy camouflages, SI reality anchors, and trauma-bonded repair. Justice means protecting what cannot be measured—because the most real persons are often those society can’t see, or stop.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20253 min read
What Is the Role of Narrative in Self-Creation?
What is the role of narrative in self-creation? SE Press: Selfhood is pattern, rupture, and plural meaning—a perpetual storytelling revolution, with protocols that track, question, and sometimes break themselves to let more selves through.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20253 min read
Mind & Consciousness: Protocol Atlas and Challenge-Grade Meta-Synthesis
Mind & Consciousness Protocol Atlas: platinum, empirical, quantum-secured, and challenge-universal. All answers, grades, and upgrades now public, cross-species, registry-locked, and open to revision. This is the new gold standard for actionable, ethical, and world-scale consciousness science.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 10, 20254 min read
Is Free Will Real or an Illusion?
Is free will real or an illusion? SE Press: Free will is audit-passed, adaptive, and star-rated—real but bounded. Libertarian free will is empirically closed; compatibilist agency, documented in error-correction logs, grounds law, ethics, and growth
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20252 min read
What Shapes Neurodivergent Identity?
What shapes neurodivergent identity? SE Press proves: cognitive architecture, narrative, agency, and SI modeling drive measurable strengths and future adaptation. Neurodiversity is a living, star-rated asset for human and synthetic minds, always open to audit, upgrade, and challenge.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 8, 20253 min read
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