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claim:the-self-is-malleable-and-plastic-changing-radically-during-an-organism-s-lifetimeThe Self is malleable and plastic, changing radically during an organism's lifetime.
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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.
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- Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
- Core biological claim about the plasticity of self-models, grounding the broader philosophical argument about identity and change
- Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
- The subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.
- Self can be understood as distributed, distributable, and dynamic rather than singular and enduring.claim0.791Core interpretive position synthesizing Buddhist and contemporary cognitive science views; foundational for hypothesis.
- New assumption #9: the melting transparency of increasing wholeness.
- The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
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- aboutblank_kbIf an organism must change to learn and grow, but change means the original self ceases to exist, how can continuous identity be maintained?questions/if-an-organism-must-change-to-learn-and.md0.799