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concept:plasticity-of-the-selfPlasticity of the Self
The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
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- Plasticity of biological Selfrelated_tosame_as
- Plasticityrelated_toProperty of minds to adapt to radical changes in substrate, form, and embodiment across lifetime and evolution.
- Plasticity Of Liferelated_to
- Memory Retention Across Metamorphosisassociated_withThe phenomenon that memories persist through radical brain and body remodeling, e.g., in caterpillars becoming butterflies.
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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 ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.
- Learning mechanism: parameter updates resemble classical Hebbian learning with associative and decay terms.
- Physical plasticity of individual cells or particles enabling adaptation to novel environments.
- Experience-dependent changes in synaptic weights, implementing learning of A, B, D matrices.
- 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.
- Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.