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question:what-are-the-invariants-that-enable-a-self-to-persist-and-remain-recognizable-despite-drastic-biological-remodelingWhat are the invariants that enable a Self to persist and remain recognizable despite drastic biological remodeling?
Drives investigation of memory, identity, and continuity across metamorphosis and regeneration.
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- Central to TAME; challenges monadic self theory through examples of metamorphosis, regeneration, and mind-body substitution.
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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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- Addresses the problem of identity across brain/body remodeling.
- Memory transfer across tissues and through metamorphosis supports persistence of Self.
- Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
- Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
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- aboutblank_kbIf an organism must change to learn and grow, but change means the original self ceases to exist, how can continuous identity be maintained?questions/if-an-organism-must-change-to-learn-and.md0.806
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