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question:what-is-the-boundary-of-self-and-how-does-it-change-across-development-injury-and-chimeric-modificationwhat is the boundary of self, and how does it change across development, injury, and chimeric modification?
Core question about the plasticity of self-models, central to the paper's argument about identity and change
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- Core biological claim about the plasticity of self-models, grounding the broader philosophical argument about identity and change
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- The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future
- The phenomenon that memories persist through radical brain and body remodeling, e.g., in caterpillars becoming butterflies.
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- Central open question framing the paper's synthesis.