Exhibit THIRTY-ONE Me v393L   # 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 and explainings are the fields' own. 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: 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 chemical, biological, social and universal: each scale's selves within a me, and a me within each scale's societies. *Observings.* - **Nested Markov blankets**, an explaining: cells within organs within organisms within groups, each a bounding by its exchanges; and a second explaining, these boundings modelling tools. - **Multiscale competency**, an explaining: molecular networks, cells, tissues, organs and organisms each problem-solving, nested. - **Biopsychosocial medicine**, an explaining: illness within a hierarchy of systems, cell to society. - **Autocatalytic sets**, an explaining: a society of molecules making the set; an anticipated observing: such a set within reconstructed ancient metabolism. - **Dissipative structures**, an explaining: order far from equilibrium by exchange with an outside. - **Russellian monism**, an explaining: physics says what matter does; its inside may be experiential, with the combination problem unsolved. ## 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**, an explaining: living as a network producing its own components; "living as a process is a process of cognition"; structural coupling between systems. - **Mind in life**, an explaining: where there is life there is mind. - **Participatory sense-making**, an explaining: sense made together, an interaction with its own dynamics: the field's nearest *co-intelligencing*. - **Basal cognition**, an explaining: cognition from cells up; cognition and consciousness kept apart. - **Quorum sensing**: bacteria count their own and other kinds and act as one at a quorum. - **No agreed definition of life**, an anticipated observing: 68 definitions map as a continuous landscape, its largest cluster cognitive autonomy.   # 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**, an explaining: self-consciousness "achieves its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness". - **Ubuntu**, an explaining: a person is a person through other persons. - **Self and Other**, an explaining: shame and empathy, a self given as seen by another. - **Kin and self recognition**: swarms, amoebae and plants meeting same and other differently. ## 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**: structure, function and quality of connection each tied to mortality, distinct directions. - **Discontinuity theory of immunity**, an explaining: the immune system meets the rate of change in a relation. - *A naming edge:* the extended mind's **parity principle** is inner and outer doing one job; our parity is a changing direction relative to an other. ## 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**, an explaining: consciousness may depend on living, self-maintaining systems; a large language model is unlikely to be conscious. - **Indicator properties**, an explaining: functionalist indicators for AI consciousness; no current system a strong candidate. - **AI welfare** and **model introspection**, an explaining: welfare and introspection of a running system in interaction, beside its stored weights. - **Whole-cell simulation**, an anticipated observing: a living minimal cell's cycle, as a non-living model predicts it. ## 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**, an explaining: the immune system tolerating self and meeting not-self. - **The danger model**, an explaining: immunity meets harm, not foreignness. - **The limits of the self**, an explaining: an individual including its microbes and excluding some of its own cells. - **Peripheral tolerance and regulatory T cells**: tolerance an active restraint of cells by cells.   # 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**, an explaining: the Me, all a person can call theirs, material, social and spiritual. - **The I and the me**, an explaining: the me, the organized attitudes of others, beside the I's new response. - *A naming edge:* the Me of both 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**, an explaining: each experience has a for-me-ness. - **The hard problem**, an explaining: why experience accompanies function. An identity names the two as one and explains neither. - **IIT and exclusion**, an explaining: consciousness a maximally irreducible cause-effect structure; a person and a society are two candidates, one subject. - **IIT vs global workspace**: an adversarial test with no winner. - **Panpsychism and combination**, an explaining: experience a feature of all matter, and the problem of many subjects combining into one. - **Self-model theory** and **narrative self**, an explaining: a self as a model or a centre of narrative gravity. - **Anatta**, an explaining: a self as process, I-making. ## 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**: about one in four unresponsive patients follow commands covertly: a me conscious while its others see none. - **Anaesthesia**: unresponsiveness, disconnection and unconsciousness come apart. - **Depersonalization**: fully conscious, a felt me altered. ## 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**, an explaining: animals and plants are host and symbionts by each criterion. - **Bacterial and human cells**, an anticipated observing: about 38 trillion bacteria with 30 trillion human cells. - **Fetal microchimerism**: a child's cells living in the mother for decades. - **Interoception**, an explaining: the body's tissues reported to the whole as feeling and a felt self. - **Protoself, core self, autobiographical self**, an explaining: a self in three, a self of the body's own state, a self with each present moment, and a self of a whole lived life. - **Global workspace**, an explaining: many processes sharing what one has.   # 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**, an explaining: stability through change, regulation by predicting the next. - **The beast-machine self**, an explaining: the self first a body predicting its own interior to go on living. - **The cognitive light cone**, an explaining: a self as far as the goals it can pursue. - **Physarum**: one cell solving a maze, its "memory" in its tube widths. - **Conditioned immunity**: the inward society learning to anticipate. ## 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**: curious days, more meaning. - **Curiosity and survival**: higher curiosity, lower mortality in older men; observational. - **Curiosity across age**: trait curiosity falls with age, curiosity for new information rises. - **Anthrobots**: adult airway cells, their others changed, possibling new living forms. - **Honeybee democracy**: scouts share possibilities until a quorum discovers a home. ## 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**: a person's death declared while cells and organs go on living. - **BrainEx**: cellular function restored in pig brains hours after death, with no organized activity.   # 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**, an explaining: moral competence as responsive care within relations. - **Organismality**, an explaining: an organism as high cooperation and low conflict among its parts. - **Relationship-centred care**, an explaining: the relationship the moral and healing unit. ## 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**, an explaining: multicellularity as cooperation; cancer a cell cheating on it. - **Tissue organization field theory**, an explaining: cancer a disease of the tissue's relations. - **Cancer as a shrunken self**, an explaining: a cell's goals shrinking to its own as coupling fails. - **Social ties and immunity**: diverse ties, fewer colds; loneliness, an inflammatory gene profile. - **Positive health**, an explaining: health as the ability to adapt and self-manage. ## 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**, an explaining: societies of selves becoming one self, rarely, with shared fate. - **Social relationships and survival**, an anticipated observing: about 50% greater odds of survival with stronger ties. - **Loneliness**, an anticipated observing: about 871,000 deaths a year linked to loneliness. - **Social determinants**: health follows a society's gradient. ## 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; personal identity'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, the 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. **Chemical selves.** No physics gives molecules an inside; Russellian monism is a philosophical position. A chemical me is our extension. 6. **First private or first relational.** Phenomenology's minimal self precedes others; the I and the me, recognition, 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.