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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c14Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
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- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds7 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds7 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds3 members
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue2 members
- AI: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence.md1 member
- The computational boundary of a 'self': developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition1 member
Bridges (17)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Relational self, care & aliveness6 shared
- Collective intelligence & distributed cognition4 shared
- Bioelectric memory & morphogenetic identity4 shared
- Memory as transferable information substrate3 shared
- Cognitive plasticity and uncertainty metabolization3 shared
- Self as dynamic capacity for care and plasticity2 shared
- Cognitive capacity independent of neural substrate1 shared
- Substrate neutrality of consciousness1 shared
- Gradualism and nested cognition frameworks1 shared
- Alexander's centers as cross-domain framework1 shared
- Multi-scale coherence and recursive centers1 shared
- Active inference & agent ecology1 shared
- Functional criteria for moral patienthood1 shared
- Autopoietic organization and nested autonomy1 shared
- Causal emergence in biological systems1 shared
- Self as dynamic computational construct1 shared
- Memory persistence through radical embodied transformation1 shared
Claims (16)
- Cognitive Self as Plastic and MalleableThe subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.
- Memories are messages between agents separated across time; each engram is a stigmergic note left by a past version of self
- Memories are not immutable markers of identity; they can be transferred between individuals and remapped onto new substrates.Evidence from planarian tail fragment training and metamorphosis suggests memory is substrate-independent process.
- Memories as messages between temporal agentsLevin proposes viewing memories as stigmergic notes left by past Selflets; parallelizes vertical (temporal) communication with horizontal (social) communication.
- Memory is a candidate invariant that enables a Self to persist despite drastic alterations of substrate.Memory transfer across tissues and through metamorphosis supports persistence of Self.
- Minds are not tightly bound to specific architectures but readily mold to changes in genomic defaults and material substrate.Central claim supporting TAME's framework: evidence of cognitive flexibility across diverse embodied systems.
- Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not oneLevin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
- No Privileged Material Substrate for MindMinds not exclusively neural; basal cognition identifies intelligences in single cells, plants, tissues, swarms; brains pre-date neurons evolutionarily.
- Selves are not fixed permanent agents; the substrate of memory, preferences, and rewards is plastic and can remodel during the agent's lifetime.Central claim that cognitive Selves change in real-time, supported by examples of metamorphosis and regeneration.
- Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
- Selves exist across a continuum of persuadability.A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).
- TAME does not claim that mind is inevitably baked in regardless of physical implementation; causal structure and cybernetic properties are key determinants.Distinguishes TAME from panpsychist views; emphasizes role of organization.
- The Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.
- The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
- The Self is subject to significant change in real-time, both slow maturation and radical material remodeling.Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
- There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.