Ecology, Authority and the Executability of Developed Neural Plasticity.
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This work studies how lifetime neural plasticity develops into a causal carrier of life-specific information, how different temporal ecologies shape the rewrite behavior of that plastic state, and whether a persistent structured synaptic trace is necessarily usable by the computation that produced it. Across a series of controlled artificial-organism experiments, lifetime plastic state is shown to carry life-specific information with measurable transplant fidelity and specificity. Different temporal ecologies produce distinct rewrite behavior in the same dominant tested carrier, including a replicated contrast between stable-within-life and volatile conditions. A retrieval-controlled intervention further shows that a structured upstream trace can remain physically present while failing to become behaviorally retrievable under the tested positive-scalar authority-restoration family. A mixed-regime ecology also reveals a measurable cost of lifetime plasticity to inherited stable knowledge and a two-hit rewriting phenotype. The paper is deliberately conservative about scope: it does not claim a new plasticity architecture, a general theory of memory, biological equivalence, or general non-executability of persistent traces. This Zenodo record contains the preprint and supplementary material. Machine-readable provenance and rewrite-response data are provided where included in the deposit.
Author: Vanev, Vanyo
Language: English
Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7210269790
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