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claim:cognitive-self-as-plastic-and-malleableCognitive Self as Plastic and Malleable
The subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.
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extracted_from(2022) · Levin, Michael
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Findings (3)
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- Evidence of neural plasticity; demonstrates mind's independence from specific body layout.
- Empirical demonstration that memories persist through massive brain and body remodeling during metamorphosis, challenging notions of stable Self-substrate binding.
- Empirical finding that planaria tail fragments retain learned information and imprint memories onto newly regenerated brains.
Hypotheses (1)
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- Memory proposed as candidate invariant enabling Self persistence despite drastic biological remodeling; understood as communication between past and future Selves.
Communities (3)
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- Relational self, care & alivenessmembers_ofSelf as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
- Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
- How organisms dynamically restructure cognition and identity through metabolizing uncertainty, enabling adaptive robustness across embodied contexts.
Concepts (1)
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- HybrotssupportsLiving brains instrumentized to control artificial bodies; example of chimeric technology producing novel embodiments
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- Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
- The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
- The process by which smaller agents join into a larger emergent Self with expanded cognitive light cones, mediated by gap junctions.
- Selves that are dynamical constructs, maintained by continuous reinterpretation.