Learning at more than one scale.

Looking beyond a single learning rule

The lifelong neuroplasticity directive broadens the Brain B investigation. It asks how synapses, dendrites, assemblies, cortical–hippocampal links and whole-system regulation might contribute to continuing adaptation.

The interesting question is not whether software can borrow a biological name. It is whether a proposed mechanism produces a useful, falsifiable difference in a controlled experiment.

What was authorised

The directive authorised research and isolated experiments. It did not establish that these mechanisms were already deployed as working organs inside Owen.

This chapter records a change in research scope. Later experiments would still need baselines, retained failures and clear boundaries between an isolated result and an installed capability.