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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.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Michael Levin

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Caterpillars retain memories through metamorphosis into butterflies despite drastic brain remodeling.
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Planarians derived from tail fragments of trained worms retain original information after brain regeneration
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Behavioral memories in planaria persist through complete brain regeneration, indicating movement of memory across tissues.

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Bioelectric memory & morphogenetic identity
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Gap junctions and bioelectric signals encode body-plan and memory patterns across radical biological transformation.
Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
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Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
Memory persistence through radical embodied transformation
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Explores how learned behaviors and functional memory survive complete neural restructuring during metamorphosis, testing substrate-independence of identity and continuity.

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Memory as Cognitive Invariant Across Substrate Changehypothesis0.861
Memory proposed as candidate invariant enabling Self persistence despite drastic biological remodeling; understood as communication between past and future Selves.
What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist and remain recognizable despite drastic biological remodeling?question0.830
Drives investigation of memory, identity, and continuity across metamorphosis and regeneration.
What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist despite drastic biological change?question0.820
Central question driving TAME framework, connecting identity continuity across metamorphosis, regeneration, and therapeutic brain replacement.
What Invariants Enable A Self To Persist Andquestion0.809
Memory Transfer and Persistence Across Substrate Changehypothesis0.803
Hypothesis that memories can persist and be reimprinted on new substrates during metamorphosis, regeneration, and brain replacement; tested in planaria and butterflies.
The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.801
Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist (and be recognizable by third-person investigations) despite such change?question0.799
Addresses the problem of identity across brain/body remodeling.
Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.796
Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.

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What mechanisms enable memories to transfer between organisms or persist through radical transformations?questions/what-mechanisms-enable-memories-to-transfer-between-organisms.md0.839
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What is the substrate for memory if memories can persist across fragmentation, transplantation, and radical body transformation?questions/what-is-the-substrate-for-memory-if-memories.md0.829
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What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist and be recognizable despite drastic biological remodeling?questions/what-are-the-invariants-that-enable-a-self.md0.829
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What invariants enable a Self to persist and be recognizable despite drastic changes in its material substrate?questions/what-invariants-enable-a-self-to-persist-and.md0.829
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How can memories persist and remain adaptive across radical refactoring of brain tissue during metamorphosis?questions/how-can-memories-persist-and-remain-adaptive-across.md0.823
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What role do memory and forgetting play in organisms' ability to evolve and persist?questions/what-role-do-memory-and-forgetting-play-in.md0.819
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What is the relationship between memory and self-identity across transformative changes?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-memory-and-selfidentity.md0.818
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Memory As Inter-Temporal Communicationframeworks/memory-as-inter-temporal-communication.md0.793
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How do organisms maintain coherent self-models across continuous molecular turnover and aging?questions/how-do-organisms-maintain-coherent-selfmodels-across-continuous.md0.793
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Meta-Stability Of Somatic Pattern Memoriesconcepts/biology/meta-stability-of-somatic-pattern-memories.md0.790
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Developmental Memoryconcepts/biology/developmental-memory.md0.785