Memory as Cognitive Invariant Across Substrate Change

Memory proposed as candidate invariant enabling Self persistence despite drastic biological remodeling; understood as communication between past and future Selves.

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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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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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Memory is a candidate invariant that enables a Self to persist despite drastic alterations of substrate.claim0.861
Memory transfer across tissues and through metamorphosis supports persistence of Self.
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Hypothesis that memories can persist and be reimprinted on new substrates during metamorphosis, regeneration, and brain replacement; tested in planaria and butterflies.
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Asserts that organismic identity is fundamentally a cognitive structure.
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Bold, load-bearing tenet of the paper's framework.
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Is Cognition Fundamentally Substrateindependent Or Are There Constraintsquestion0.781
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Central claim supporting TAME's framework: evidence of cognitive flexibility across diverse embodied systems.

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What mechanisms enable memories to transfer between organisms or persist through radical transformations?questions/what-mechanisms-enable-memories-to-transfer-between-organisms.md0.817
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What is the substrate for memory if memories can persist across fragmentation, transplantation, and radical body transformation?questions/what-is-the-substrate-for-memory-if-memories.md0.801