The Uncanny Valley describes the eery feeling when I look at a shambling mound of individual cells that have lumped together into a humanoid form and execute a crude cellular automaton on dedicated chemo electrical cells that animate it and pretend to itself that it's conscious
Identity over time is again a very different kind of representation. An object with divergent aspects can be unified by combining its divergent instances with an explicit identity relation, which when ordered becomes a world line, and when anchored to temporal events, a biography
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That's adding dimensions. I'm talking about a single dimension. One dimension can represent a change over time or space. To get a biography you need at least three dimensions (I think), to compare how something changes over time compared to something else.
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You can think of most representations as graphs, with objects, features, events as nodes, and links between them as relations. Temporal events can be ordered with succession relations, and anchored to time points with co-occurrence relations.
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