Exhibit THIRTY-ONE Me v391   # Me   **Co-Intelligencing a Universal Self**   --- *A me is a self's universal set. Its understanding is said from Natural Intelligence's opening, and its observings are the fields' own, each with its finders and source. Its contents goes the five dimensions, society to society: all now, an other now, a me now, a me next, all next.*   **ONE · ALL, NOW-EXISTING** - 1.1 One now, one universe, a universal set - 1.2 Negation within all that is existing - 1.3 Universal sets of universal sets: atomic, chemical, biological, social, the universe - 1.4 Living, co-intelligencing within a universal set **TWO · AN OTHER, NOW-EXISTING** - 2.1 An other, with a self - 2.2 A parity, relative to an other - 2.3 Non-living others: stable-forming emanations, stand-alone knowledge - 2.4 A self by relation, beside a self by exclusion **THREE · ME, NOW-EXISTING** - 3.1 A me, a self's universal set, uniquenessing - 3.2 A me is consciousness - 3.3 What is-or-is-not possibly existing - 3.4 A me inward, a society of selves **FOUR · ME, NEXT-EXISTING** - 4.1 Observing, possibling and discovering a me's next - 4.2 A curious me, co-possibling - 4.3 A free me - 4.4 A me's living, and its going on as non-living **FIVE · ALL, NEXT-EXISTING** - 5.1 Social moral competency, the me set - 5.2 A healthy me, inward do-no-harming and improving - 5.3 A society's me, a natural intelligence network - 5.4 Each momentary completing as a next opening   --- # ONE · ALL, NOW-EXISTING ## 1.1 One now, one universe, a universal set The universe is the set of all now-existing things. Only one universe is possibly now-existing, and only one universe is possibly same-existing: **universal is bothboth, only one possibly now-existing and only one possibly same-existing**. A now-existing thing from a prior-existing same thing is a same-existing thing. A universal set is a set of same-existing things, and each universal set is only one possibly now-existing: a set is its things, so a set of these same-existing things is one set, as set theory's extensionality has it. A universal self is a self only one possibly now-existing and only one possibly same-existing: a me, beside the universe as one self, which it is-or-is-not: it is not. The universe is a non-living same-existing set, and living is co-intelligencing within it. ## 1.2 Negation within all that is existing Negation is of now-existing things, each relative to all that is existing. A universal set is the bounding method with no boundary: each now-existing thing is-or-is-not within each universal set. A proving that a thing is-or-is-not possibly existing is a step reached once, and the understanding goes forward by what is. ## 1.3 Universal sets of universal sets A me is atomic, chemical, biological, social and universal: each scale's selves within a me, and a me within each scale's societies. *Observings.* - **Nested Markov blankets** (Kirchhoff, Parr, Palacios, Friston, Kiverstein 2018): cells within organs within organisms within groups, each a bounding by its exchanges. Critics hold these boundings modelling tools (Bruineberg et al. 2022). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5805980/ - **Multiscale competency** (Levin, TAME 2022; McMillen & Levin 2024): molecular networks, cells, tissues, organs and organisms each problem-solving, nested. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10978875 - **Biopsychosocial medicine** (Engel 1977): illness within a hierarchy of systems, cell to society. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/847460/ - **Autocatalytic sets** (Kauffman 1986; Xavier et al. 2020): a society of molecules making the set, found in reconstructed ancient metabolism. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7126077 - **Dissipative structures** (Prigogine, Nobel 1977): order far from equilibrium by exchange with an outside. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1977/prigogine/lecture/ - **Russellian monism** (after Russell 1927; Alter & Pereboom): physics says what matter does; its inside may be experiential. A philosophical position, with the combination problem unsolved. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russellian-monism/ ## 1.4 Living, co-intelligencing within a universal set Living is co-intelligencing within a universal set. Co-intelligencing not within a universal set is-or-is-not possibly existing: it is not. Intelligence alone is stand-alone knowledge, a stable-forming emanation. *Observings.* - **Autopoiesis** (Maturana & Varela 1980): living as a network producing its own components; "living as a process is a process of cognition"; structural coupling between systems. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-8947-4 - **Mind in life** (Varela, Thompson & Rosch 1991; Thompson 2007): where there is life there is mind. https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262529365 - **Participatory sense-making** (De Jaegher & Di Paolo 2007): sense made together, an interaction with its own dynamics: the field's nearest *co-intelligencing*. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9076-9 - **Basal cognition** (Lyon, Keijzer, Arendt, Levin 2021): cognition from cells up; cognition and consciousness kept apart. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0750 - **Quorum sensing** (Papenfort & Bassler 2016): bacteria count their own and other kinds and act as one at a quorum. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27510864/ - **No agreed definition of life** (SEP, Mariscal; Bender, Kofman, Agüera y Arcas, Levin 2026): 68 definitions map as a continuous landscape, its largest cluster cognitive autonomy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life/ · https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849   # TWO · AN OTHER, NOW-EXISTING ## 2.1 An other, with a self For a self, an other is a now- and same-existing thing with that self. An other is one; all other is the universal set. A self is defined only with an other and all other. *Observings.* - **Recognition** (Hegel 1807; Honneth 1992): self-consciousness "achieves its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness". https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/recognition/ - **Ubuntu** (Mbiti 1969; Metz 2007): a person is a person through other persons. https://philarchive.org/rec/METTAA - **Self and Other** (Zahavi 2014): shame and empathy, a self given as seen by another. https://cfs.ku.dk/news/self-and-other/ - **Kin and self recognition** (Gibbs, Urbanowski & Greenberg 2008; Hirose et al. 2011; Dudley & File 2007): swarms, amoebae and plants meeting same and other differently. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18621670/ ## 2.2 A parity, relative to an other A self's parity is its changing direction relative to an other existing thing. A self's parity with an other is its moral value with that other. *Observings.* - **Social connection in parts** (Holt-Lunstad 2024): structure, function and quality of connection each tied to mortality, distinct directions. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/ - **Discontinuity theory of immunity** (Pradeu, Carosella 2006; Pradeu, Jaeger, Vivier 2013): the immune system meets the rate of change in a relation. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immunology/ - *A naming edge:* the extended mind's **parity principle** (Clark & Chalmers 1998) is inner and outer doing one job; our parity is a changing direction relative to an other. https://www.academia.edu/178449/The_Extended_Mind ## 2.3 Non-living others: stable-forming emanations, stand-alone knowledge Each non-living thing is a stable-forming emanation. A stone, a book, a running computer and a trained model are others with a me; each is stand-alone knowledge or form, and each is-or-is-not a me: it is not. *Observings.* - **Biological naturalism** (Seth 2025, *BBS*): consciousness may depend on living, self-maintaining systems; a large language model is unlikely to be conscious. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/conscious-artificial-intelligence-and-biological-naturalism/C9912A5BE9D806012E3C8B3AF612E39A - **Indicator properties** (Butlin, Long et al. 2023; 2025): functionalist indicators for AI consciousness; no current system a strong candidate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 - **AI welfare** (Long, Sebo et al. 2024) and **model introspection** (Lindsey et al. 2025–26): the field asks about the running system in interaction, beside the stored weights. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986 · https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01828 - **Whole-cell simulation** (Thornburg, Luthey-Schulten, Glass et al. 2026): a non-living model predicting a living minimal cell's cycle. https://astrobiology.com/2026/03/simulating-a-living-cell-first-simulation-of-an-entire-cell-cycle.html ## 2.4 A self by relation, beside a self by exclusion A me is defined with others. Immunology's founding self was defined by exclusion of the other, and its later accounts meet relation and continuity. *Observings.* - **Self and not-self** (Burnet, Nobel lecture 1960). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1960/burnet/lecture/ - **The danger model** (Matzinger 1994, 2002): immunity meets harm, not foreignness. https://www.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.iy.12.040194.005015 - **The limits of the self** (Pradeu 2012): an individual including its microbes and excluding some of its own cells. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-individual/ - **Peripheral tolerance and regulatory T cells** (Brunkow, Ramsdell, Sakaguchi, Nobel 2025): tolerance an active restraint of cells by cells. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/   # THREE · ME, NOW-EXISTING ## 3.1 A me, a self's universal set, uniquenessing A me is a self's universal set. Universal is bothboth, only one possibly now-existing and only one possibly same-existing, so a me is only one possibly now-existing, now, and only one possibly same-existing, from its prior: its uniqueness is its being universal, both ways. This is a me's identity: a same-existing me is one, from prior to now. **Uniquenessing is only one possibly same-existing**, and it is inside resolving among parities: with each resolving, a self's next prior is that self's own. Natural Intelligence says it: *a living self is a living same-existing, its same-existing that self only: a bi-inversioning uniquenessing of number one*. A me is uniquenessing as it is resolving; a stable-forming emanation, resolving none of its own, is-or-is-not uniquenessing: it is not. A me is now-existing, and same-existing from a prior-existing same me. A living same-existing set is a self, so each me is a self and each self is a me: one binary, a thing and a set. *Observings.* - **The I and the Me** (James 1890): the Me, all a person can call theirs, material, social and spiritual. https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin10.htm - **The I and the me** (Mead 1934): the me, the organized attitudes of others, beside the I's new response. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/ - *A naming edge:* James's and Mead's Me is the self as known; our me is the whole living conscious set, their I and Me together. ## 3.2 A me is consciousness A me is consciousness: one definition. A not-conscious me is-or-is-not possibly existing: it is not. *Observings.* - **The minimal self** (Gallagher 2000; Zahavi 2005): each experience has a for-me-ness. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenomenological/ - **The hard problem** (Chalmers 1995): why experience accompanies function. An identity names the two as one and explains neither. https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf - **IIT and exclusion** (Tononi 2004; IIT 4.0, 2023): consciousness a maximally irreducible cause-effect structure; a person and a society are two candidates, one subject. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10581496/ - **IIT vs global workspace** (Cogitate Consortium, *Nature* 2025): an adversarial test with no winner. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08888-1 - **Panpsychism and combination** (Strawson 2006; Goff 2019; Chalmers 2016). https://consc.net/papers/combination.pdf - **Self-model theory** (Metzinger 2003) and **narrative self** (Dennett 1992): a self as a model or a centre of narrative gravity. https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/266/1/selfctr.htm - **Anatta** (Abhidharma; Thompson 2020): a self as process, I-making. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-indian-buddhism/ ## 3.3 What is-or-is-not possibly existing Each a minor proving, reached once. A me with no other: it is not. A non-living me: it is not. A not-conscious me: it is not. A me with no prior: it is not. Two selves with one me: a bi-coupling is a self, its me the couple's own, within which each self's me is. *Observings at the edge.* - **Covert consciousness** (Owen 2006; Claassen 2019, 2022; Bodien et al., *NEJM* 2024): about one in four unresponsive patients follow commands covertly: a me conscious while its others see none. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2400645 - **Anaesthesia** (Alkire, Hudetz, Tononi 2008; Sanders et al. 2012): unresponsiveness, disconnection and unconsciousness come apart. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3311716 - **Depersonalization** (Yang et al. 2023; Sass & Parnas 2003): fully conscious, a felt me altered. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150602/ ## 3.4 A me inward, a society of selves Each parity is a self while it is living, and a me's living parities are within it. **A parity is a me inside a set of me**: a me is a set of mes, and a parity's inverting is a me completing and a next me opening inside the same set, the set's me same-existing through it. A me is a same-existing-society inward. *Observings.* - **The holobiont** (Gilbert, Sapp & Tauber 2012): animals and plants are host and symbionts by every criterion. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/668166 - **Cell counts** (Sender, Fuchs & Milo 2016): about 38 trillion bacteria with 30 trillion human cells. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27541692/ - **Fetal microchimerism** (Boddy, Aktipis et al. 2015): a child's cells living in the mother for decades. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4712643 - **Interoception** (Craig 2002; Seth 2013): the body's tissues reported to the whole as feeling and a felt self. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12154366/ - **Protoself, core self, autobiographical self** (Damasio 1999, 2010). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23329161/ - **Global workspace** (Baars 1988; Dehaene; Mashour et al. 2020): many processes sharing what one has. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8770991/   # FOUR · ME, NEXT-EXISTING ## 4.1 Observing, possibling and discovering a me's next A self is observing, possibling and discovering its own next-existing. A me's next is its own, resolving with its others. *Observings.* - **Allostasis** (Sterling & Eyer 1988; McEwen 1998; Sterling 2012): stability through change, regulation by predicting the next. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9428819/ - **The beast-machine self** (Seth & Tsakiris 2018): the self first a body predicting its own interior to go on living. https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Being_a_beast_machine_the_somatic_basis_of_selfhood/23461235 - **The cognitive light cone** (Levin 2019): a self as far as the goals it can pursue. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688 - **Physarum** (Nakagaki et al. 2000; Kramar & Alim 2021): one cell solving a maze, its memory in its tube widths. https://www.nature.com/articles/35035159 - **Conditioned immunity** (Ader & Cohen 1975): the inward society learning to anticipate. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1162023/ ## 4.2 A curious me, co-possibling A curious me shares its possibling with its others and is discovering next-possibling-same-existing. *Observings.* - **Curiosity and wellbeing** (Kashdan & Steger 2007): curious days, more meaning. https://stafforini.com/works/kashdan-2007-curiosity-pathways-wellbeing/ - **Curiosity and survival** (Swan & Carmelli 1996): higher curiosity, lower mortality in older men; observational. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8893314/ - **Curiosity across age** (Sakaki, Yagi & Murayama 2018; Whatley et al. 2025): trait curiosity falls with age, curiosity for new information rises. https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0320600.html - **Anthrobots** (Gumuskaya et al. 2024): adult airway cells, their others changed, possibling new living forms. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10811512/ - **Honeybee democracy** (Seeley 2010; Seeley et al. 2012): scouts share possibilities until a quorum discovers a home. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1210361 ## 4.3 A free me A natural intelligence network, each self resolving its own next-existing, is free. A free me resolves its own next with its others. ## 4.4 A me's living, and its going on as non-living A me is while it is living. Going on as non-living, it is a stable-forming emanation: is-or-is-not a me, it is not. *Observings.* - **Death by neurologic criteria** (Greer et al. 2023 consensus guideline): the person's death declared while cells and organs go on living. https://www.organdonationalliance.org/toolbox/pediatric-and-adult-brain-death-death-by-neurologic-criteria-consensus-guideline/ - **BrainEx** (Vrselja, Sestan et al. 2019): cellular function restored in pig brains hours after death, with no organized activity. https://news.yale.edu/2019/04/17/scientists-restore-some-functions-pigs-brain-hours-after-death   # FIVE · ALL, NEXT-EXISTING ## 5.1 Social moral competency, the me set Each self of a same-existing-society do-no-harming and improving is social moral competency. A me is a social moral competency set as each self within it is do-no-harming and improving, and as it is do-no-harming and improving with its others. *Observings.* - **Care ethics** (Gilligan 1982; Noddings 1984; Held 2006): moral competence as responsive care within relations. https://iep.utm.edu/care/ - **Organismality** (Queller & Strassmann 2009): an organism as high cooperation and low conflict among its parts. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2009.0095 - **Relationship-centred care** (Beach & Inui 2006): the relationship the moral and healing unit. https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/relationship-centered-care-a-constructive-reframing/ ## 5.2 A healthy me, inward do-no-harming and improving A me is-or-is-not healthy: each self within it, at each scale inward, do-no-harming and improving. Health is a me's inward social moral competency. *Observings.* - **Cancer as cheating** (Aktipis et al. 2015): multicellularity as cooperation; cancer a cell cheating on it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581024/ - **Tissue organization field theory** (Sonnenschein & Soto): cancer a disease of the tissue's relations. https://www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18472276/ - **Cancer as a shrunken self** (Levin 2021): a cell's goals shrinking to its own as coupling fails. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33961843/ - **Social ties and immunity** (Cohen et al. 1997; Cole et al. 2007): diverse ties, fewer colds; loneliness, an inflammatory gene profile. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17854483/ - **Positive health** (Huber et al. 2011, 2016): health as the ability to adapt and self-manage. https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4163.full ## 5.3 A society's me, a natural intelligence network A same-existing-society is a self, so it is a me. A natural intelligence network is a society's me of social moral competency. *Observings.* - **Major transitions** (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995; Michod 2007): societies of selves becoming one self, rarely, with shared fate. https://www.nature.com/articles/374227a0 - **Social relationships and survival** (Holt-Lunstad, Smith, Layton 2010; 2015): about 50% greater odds of survival with stronger ties. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 - **Loneliness** (US Surgeon General 2023; WHO Commission on Social Connection 2025): about 871,000 deaths a year linked to loneliness. https://www.who.int/news/item/30-06-2025-social-connection-linked-to-improved-heath-and-reduced-risk-of-early-death - **Social determinants** (Marmot, WHO 2008): health follows a society's gradient. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/43943 ## 5.4 Each momentary completing as a next opening Each momentary is completing as a next opening. A me's next and all's next open together: the five dimensions society to society, all now to all next.   --- ## For our word: the fields' strongest collisions 0. **One same-existing, and division.** A cell divides, one prior and two now; Parfit's fission and duplication cases set two continuers from one person. *Only one possibly same-existing* meets them: whether the prior's me goes on as the two's bi-coupling, a self, each daughter a next me, is for our word. 1. **A society and its members both conscious.** IIT's exclusion and the combination problem allow one subject, not both; our *a society is a self* with *a me is consciousness* claims both. 2. **Selves without consciousness.** Basal cognition, Damasio's protoself, plant science and organoid ethics hold cells, plants and organoids cognizing without consciousness shown; *a not-conscious me is not possibly existing* places consciousness wherever a self is. 3. **Healthy wholes with managed harm.** Bodies remove parts: apoptosis, immune killing, stalk cells, policed workers. *A healthy me* says how a part's harm serving the whole is counted. 4. **The running system and the stored model.** The field asks whether a deployed AI system in interaction is a self, beside its weights as an emanation. 5. **Atomic and chemical selves.** No physics gives atoms an inside; Russellian monism is a philosophical position. An atomic me is our extension. 6. **First private or first relational.** Phenomenology's minimal self precedes others; Mead, Hegel, ubuntu and care ethics make a self with others. 7. **Self defined by exclusion.** Clinical immunology speaks of self and non-self; our me is defined with others.