Plasticity of bodies and minds

The capacity of cognitive systems to adapt to drastic body alterations within the lifetime of an agent; key to understanding mind-body relationship.

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concept

Plasticity
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Property of minds to adapt to radical changes in substrate, form, and embodiment across lifetime and evolution.
Hybrots
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Living brains instrumentized to control artificial bodies; example of chimeric technology producing novel embodiments
Memory persistence through metamorphosis
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The observation that learned information is retained despite drastic brain remodeling during metamorphosis, demonstrating the plasticity of the Self.

finding

Tadpoles with eyes transplanted to tail location perform visual learning tasks normally despite altered sensory anatomy.
supports
Evidence of neural plasticity; demonstrates mind's independence from specific body layout.
Tail fragments of trained planarians retain original learned information, with memories reimprinted on newly-developing brains.
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Empirical evidence that memories persist through regeneration; challenges substrate-dependence of identity.
Learned behavior memories persist through brain metamorphosis in insects.
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Caterpillars that learn a behavior retain it as adults despite brain being drastically remodelled, showing memory mapping across substrates.

question

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

Plasticity of the Selfconcept0.845
The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
Plasticity Of Lifeconcept0.831
Cognitive Plasticity in Response to Altered Bodiesfinding0.824
Finding that tadpoles with eyes on tails rather than heads readily perform visual learning tasks, demonstrating rapid cognitive adaptation.
Particle Plasticityconcept0.819
Physical plasticity of individual cells or particles enabling adaptation to novel environments.
The plasticity of bodies and minds greatly potentiates evolvability.claim0.812
Multi-scale competency enables organisms to tolerate mutations and speed up evolutionary search.
Plasticity of biological Selfconcept0.807
Synaptic Plasticityconcept0.805
Experience-dependent changes in synaptic weights, implementing learning of A, B, D matrices.
Space of Possible Bodies and Mindsconcept0.789
Vast option space of designed and evolved combinations of living, non-living, and software components at all scales; future diverse intelligences will be chimeric mixes far beyond natural phylogeny.