# Self-Model Ensemble **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Domain:** Cognitive Modeling / Identity / Ensemble Systems **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A **Self-Model Ensemble** is a collection of partially incompatible models representing the same subject under different temporal, social, motivational or causal assumptions. One model may represent the child, another the professional role, another private appetite, another moral aspiration and another the present system attempting to integrate them. Each compresses different evidence and can generate different predictions about what the person will do. ## Westworld Interface The temporal Williams in [[wiki/Westworld S3E6 — The Model Beneath the Model|Decoherence]] form an explicit ensemble. Their disagreement shows why a person's current autobiography cannot be assumed to possess exclusive authority over the causal history that produced it. The ensemble remains useful only while uncertainty remains available. [[wiki/Good Guy Loop|Good Guy Loop]] is the collapse of that plurality into a single self-certifying class label. ## See Also [[wiki/Adversarial Self-Modeling|Adversarial Self-Modeling]] · [[wiki/Model Beneath the Model|Model Beneath the Model]] · [[wiki/Identity Pruning|Identity Pruning]] · [[wiki/Good Guy Loop|Good Guy Loop]] · [[wiki/Counterfactual Self-Simulation|Counterfactual Self-Simulation]] ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "If true consciousness may emerge—let's be clear what that could entail: If the machine is truly aware—it will by definition develop "a personality"." > **— Kai Krause**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Conscious Machines Will Develop Personalities by Kai Krause|Conscious Machines Will Develop Personalities by Kai Krause]] > "Designed Intelligence will increasingly rely on synthetic biology and organic fabrication, in which neural circuitry will be grown from genetically modified cells, and spontaneously self-assemble into networks of functional modules." > **— Paul Davies**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Designed Intelligence Will Grow From Synthetic Biology by Paul Davies|Designed Intelligence Will Grow From Synthetic Biology by Paul Davies]] > "My experience as a clinical neurologist makes me partial to believing that we will be unable to read machines' thoughts, but also they will be incapable of reading ours." > **— Gerald Smallberg**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Machines May Never Read Human Thoughts by Gerald Smallberg|Machines May Never Read Human Thoughts by Gerald Smallberg]]