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Insect larvae retain memories through complete brain remodeling during metamorphosis to adult form.

Shows that identity and cognitive continuity persist despite radical neural substrate change.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Douglas Blackiston
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Collaborator cited for work on tadpole eye transplantation, memory in metamorphosis, and xenobots.

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The Self is malleable and plastic; the subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but subject to radical change in real-time.
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Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.

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Bioelectric memory & morphogenetic identity
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Gap junctions and bioelectric signals encode body-plan and memory patterns across radical biological transformation.
Memory persistence through radical embodied transformation
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Explores how learned behaviors and functional memory survive complete neural restructuring during metamorphosis, testing substrate-independence of identity and continuity.
Memory persistence through insect metamorphosis
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Associative memories survive complete larval brain remodeling into adult Lepidoptera

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Memories formed during caterpillar life are retained through metamorphosis into butterfly despite complete brain and body remodeling (Blackiston, Shomrat & Levin 2015)finding0.887
Key biological finding supporting the claim that identity can persist through radical physical transformation
Learned behavior memories persist through brain metamorphosis in insects.finding0.886
Caterpillars that learn a behavior retain it as adults despite brain being drastically remodelled, showing memory mapping across substrates.
Caterpillars retain memories through metamorphosis into butterflies despite drastic brain remodeling.finding0.875
Memories persist through complete brain remodeling during metamorphosis by transferring and remapping onto newly-constructed neural tissue.hypothesis0.863
Proposed mechanism explaining behavioral continuity in insects undergoing radical morphogenesis.
Moths trained as caterpillars retain learned memories after metamorphosis despite near-total destruction and rebuilding of the brain (Blackiston et al.).finding0.863
Cited empirical result supporting the claim that memory persists through radical self-transformation.
Memory Persistence Through Metamorphosis Despite Brain Reconstructionfinding0.830
Training-induced memories persist across metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterflyfinding0.828
Empirical example where memories remain despite drastic refactoring of brain tissue and body; demonstrates need for creative reinterpretation rather than passive storage.
Caterpillar memories survive metamorphosis into butterfly.finding0.824
Empirical finding from Blackiston et al. 2008, demonstrating memory across radical body change.