Subject: Consciousness
Position: Unbundled functionalism
Nuance: Consciousness decomposes into a high-dimensional continuum of separable, observable capabilities rather than a single monolithic property.
Subject: Personal identity
Position: Pattern continuity
Nuance: Useful tracking abstraction without metaphysical robustness; predictive enough to ground forward-looking policy; duplication is a sharper version of the existing parent-child case.
Subject: Free will
Position: Compatibilist
Nuance: Real at its level despite mechanistic substrate; desert-flavored instincts recognized as evolved coordination heuristics, not tracking metaphysical desert.
Subject: Agency
Position: Multi-scale
Nuance: Genes, individuals, institutions, norms all operate as agents in feedback loops; levels can conflict.