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Plasticity

Property of minds to adapt to radical changes in substrate, form, and embodiment across lifetime and evolution.

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Concepts (6)

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  • The capacity of cognitive systems to adapt to drastic body alterations within the lifetime of an agent; key to understanding mind-body relationship.
  • The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
  • Physical plasticity of individual cells or particles enabling adaptation to novel environments.
  • Hybrots
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    Living brains instrumentized to control artificial bodies; example of chimeric technology producing novel embodiments
  • Robustness
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    Ability to maintain function despite perturbations.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

  • The ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.
  • Capacity of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to environment; a key enabler for evolution.
  • The ability of an organism to alter its developmental path in response to environmental or internal signals.
  • Learning mechanism: parameter updates resemble classical Hebbian learning with associative and decay terms.
  • Experience-dependent changes in synaptic weights, implementing learning of A, B, D matrices.
  • Two latent metatraits predicted by Big Two model: stability (C, A, reversed N) and plasticity (E, O)
  • Plasticity in reproduction timing or mode cued by collective context, equalizing fitnesses in egalitarian transitions