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Abstract：
Many studies on memory emphasize the material substrate and mechanisms by which data can be stored and reliably read out. Here, I focus on complementary aspects: the need for agents to dynamically reinterpret and modify memories to suit their ever-changing selves and environment. Using examples from developmental biology, evolution, and synthetic bioengineering, in addition to neuroscience, I propose that a perspective on memory as preserving salience, not fidelity, is applicable to many phenomena on scales from cells to societies. Continuous commitment to creative, adaptive confabulation, from the molecular to the behavioral levels, is the answer to the persistence paradox as it applies to individuals and whole lineages. I also speculate that a substrate-independent, processual view of life and mind suggests that memories, as patterns in the excitable medium of cognitive systems, could be seen as active agents in the sense-making process. I explore a view of life as a diverse set of embodied perspectives-nested agents who interpret each other\'s and their own past messages and actions as best as they can (polycomputation). This synthesis suggests unifying symmetries across scales and disciplines, which is of relevance to research programs in Diverse Intelligence and the engineering of novel embodied minds.
摘要：
关于存储器的许多研究强调了材料衬底和可以存储和可靠读出数据的机制。这里,我专注于互补方面：代理人需要动态地重新解释和修改记忆，以适应他们不断变化的自我和环境。用发育生物学的例子，进化,和合成生物工程，除了神经科学，我建议从记忆的角度来看保持显著性，不是忠诚，适用于从细胞到社会的许多尺度现象。对创意的持续承诺，自适应虚构，从分子到行为层面，是持久性悖论的答案，因为它适用于个人和整个血统。我还推测一个独立于底物的，生活和心灵的过程观表明记忆，作为认知系统的可兴奋媒介中的模式，可以被视为感官创造过程中的活性剂。我探索了生活的观点，作为一组不同的体现视角嵌套的代理，他们尽可能地解释彼此和他们自己过去的信息和行动（多计算）。这种综合表明，跨尺度和学科的对称性统一，这与多样化智力的研究计划和新颖的具体化思想的工程有关。
