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finding:cognitive-plasticity-in-response-to-altered-bodiesCognitive Plasticity in Response to Altered Bodies
Finding that tadpoles with eyes on tails rather than heads readily perform visual learning tasks, demonstrating rapid cognitive adaptation.
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extracted_from(2022) · Michael Levin
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- Central claim supporting TAME's framework: evidence of cognitive flexibility across diverse embodied systems.
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- Relational self, care & alivenessmembers_ofSelf as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
- How organisms dynamically restructure cognition and identity through metabolizing uncertainty, enabling adaptive robustness across embodied contexts.
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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.
- The subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.
- Plasticity in reproduction timing or mode cued by collective context, equalizing fitnesses in egalitarian transitions
- The ability of an organism to alter its developmental path in response to environmental or internal signals.