The plasticity of bodies and minds greatly potentiates evolvability.

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• Plasticity of bodies and mindsconcept0.812
  The capacity of cognitive systems to adapt to drastic body alterations within the lifetime of an agent; key to understanding mind-body relationship.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.805
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.785
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.claim0.778
  Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
• H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.773
  Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
• Natural selection can evolve phenotypic plasticity that solves division of labour games in two-player collectives (Tudge et al. 2016)finding0.770
  Shows plasticity as solution to HFHF in minimal models with homogeneous genotypes
• How do organisms achieve robustness and plasticity simultaneously in novel circumstances?question0.769
  Core question motivating bioengineering studies: how can biological systems adapt to unexpected perturbations while maintaining coherence?
• Understanding Self-plasticity and morphogenesis has direct implications for regenerative medicine and neural repair.claim0.766