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Tadpoles with eyes transplanted to tail location perform visual learning tasks normally despite altered sensory anatomy.

Evidence of neural plasticity; demonstrates mind's independence from specific body layout.

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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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Cognitive Self as Plastic and Malleable
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The subject of memories and preferences is not fixed but undergoes radical substrate remodeling during lifetime; demonstrated by metamorphosis, regeneration, and bioengineering examples.

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Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence
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Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
Bioelectric code and anatomical goal-setting
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Xenopus studies showing ion channel patterns direct cell collectives toward specific anatomical outcomes independent of genetic or positional cues, led by Michael Levin.
Bioelectric signaling in morphogenesis
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Xenopus tadpole studies demonstrating how ion channel activity and bioelectric patterns control body plan formation independent of genetics.

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

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