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claim:keeping-goal-state-encodings-functionally-orthogonal-from-the-machinery-that-executes-them-as-in-bioelectric-pattern-memories-is-a-powerful-architecture-exploited-by-evolutionKeeping goal state encodings functionally orthogonal from the machinery that executes them (as in bioelectric pattern memories) is a powerful architecture exploited by evolution.
Argues this separation allows reprogramming without hardware change.
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extracted_from(2023) · Levin, Michael
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- From Durant et al. 2017; shows bioelectric pattern memory is reprogrammable without genomic change.
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- Planarian head number can be permanently altered by re-writing bioelectric prepatterns.
- Asserts that evolution exploits a software-like layer for anatomical form, enabling rapid morphological change.
- Bioelectric state can reprogram organism morphology and behavior independently of DNA.hypothesis0.800Xenopus evolution experiment showing shape and tissue distribution alone drive morphological change.
- Bioelectric prepatterns encode pattern memories that guide morphogenesis toward target morphologies.hypothesis0.797Tested in planaria and frog face development; predicts similar mechanisms in other systems.
- Testable by computational modeling and experimental perturbation of specific bioelectric circuits.
- Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.