Simulation study reveals environmental dynamics alter synaptic rewriting and trace executability in artificial organisms, indicating physical memory retention does not ensure behavioral retrieval.
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.
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