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concept:phenotypic-plasticity-of-particlesPhenotypic Plasticity of Particles
Ability of a particle to change phenotype in response to context, enabling coordinated differentiation and solving HFHF in fraternal transitions
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- Individuation Mechanismsassociated_withTraits (developmental bottlenecks, germ separation, immune regulation, physical boundaries) that enable collectives to exhibit heritable variation in fitness.
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- Two-player model where natural selection evolves phenotypic plasticity to solve division of labour games, serving as minimal developmental model
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- phenotypic plasticityrelated_toCapacity of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to environment; a key enabler for evolution.
- Particle Plasticityrelated_toPhysical plasticity of individual cells or particles enabling adaptation to novel environments.
- The challenge that collectives must have diverse functions but equal fitness to maintain individuality without within-group selection disrupting it
- Development (Embryonic Process)associated_withTemporally extended process coordinating plastic expression of components to produce a collective phenotype, e.g., differentiation in multicellular bodies
- Second-order Particle Trait (Relational Trait)associated_withA trait about relationships between things, such as ability to differentiate, enabling consistent selection towards non-decomposable collective fitness
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Experience-dependent changes in synaptic weights, implementing learning of A, B, D matrices.
- The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
- The capacity of cognitive systems to adapt to drastic body alterations within the lifetime of an agent; key to understanding mind-body relationship.
- Property of minds to adapt to radical changes in substrate, form, and embodiment across lifetime and evolution.
- Authors argue plasticity is key to creating heritable collective fitness differences without particle-level selection conflict
- The ability of an organism to alter its developmental path in response to environmental or internal signals.
- The ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.