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claim:minds-are-not-tightly-bound-to-specific-architectures-but-readily-mold-to-changes-in-genomic-defaults-and-material-substrate

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.

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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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Cognitive Plasticity in Response to Altered Bodies
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Finding that tadpoles with eyes on tails rather than heads readily perform visual learning tasks, demonstrating rapid cognitive adaptation.

Communities (3)

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
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Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
Cognitive capacity independent of neural substrate
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Explores how intelligence and learning emerge across biological systems without requiring traditional nervous systems or fixed architectural constraints.

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Embodied cognition
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Framework treating cognition as inseparable from bodily organization and environmental interaction; aligned with biogenic approach.

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Core ontological claim unifying triangle-geometry patterns with living minds on a single continuum.
The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.803
Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
TAME does not claim that mind is inevitably baked in regardless of physical implementation; causal structure and cybernetic properties are key determinants.claim0.801
Distinguishes TAME from panpsychist views; emphasizes role of organization.
No Privileged Material Substrate for Mindclaim0.800
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There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.claim0.798
Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
Mind precedes and is a superset of life; 'living' things are simply very good at scaling up parts' lowly competencies into aligned collective intelligencesclaim0.791
Reframes the traditional life/mind hierarchy, supporting panpsychist implications.
"There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being: all known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.789
"All known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.785