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  "handle": "FormChangeRepertoire",
  "ref": "FormChangeRepertoire#7c1d",
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  "layer": "Mind",
  "category": "Strategy",
  "gloss": "A life cycle is a set of tactics played under stress, not a fixed sequence of stages",
  "mechanism": "An organism or agent holds several forms and switches between them according to environmental stress, all serving one overall strategy. The slime mould lives as single cells, aggregates into a collective body through {{self_organisation}} when food runs out, and releases spores as an option held in reserve. Failure in one form is a reason to change form, not to leave the game. The repertoire is {{meta_modularity}} applied to the body or organisation itself. Ending one instance and passing on what matters, as in {{generational_knowledge_transfer}}, is the same tactic at the scale of a lineage.",
  "invariants": [
    "Forms are selected by conditions, not by a predetermined order",
    "What was learned in one form carries into the next"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Reading a change of form as retreat and abandoning the strategy",
    "Holding the reserve form too long and missing the moment it was needed"
  ],
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  "tier": 2,
  "aliases": {
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    "generational_knowledge_transfer": "GenerationalKnowledgeTransfer",
    "self_organisation": "SelfOrganisation"
  },
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      "alias": "meta_modularity",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/MetaModularity/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/MetaModularity.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "GenerationalKnowledgeTransfer",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "generational_knowledge_transfer",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/GenerationalKnowledgeTransfer/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/GenerationalKnowledgeTransfer.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "SelfOrganisation",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "self_organisation",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/SelfOrganisation/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/SelfOrganisation.json"
    }
  ],
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      {
        "slug": "founder_strategies_from_biology",
        "title": "How the most successful founders take their strategies from biology.",
        "url": "/research/founder_strategies_from_biology/",
        "meetups": [
          {
            "title": "How the most successful founders take their strategies from biology.",
            "dateISO": "2026-09-22T19:30+02:00",
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          }
        ],
        "people": [
          {
            "name": "Arne Steemers",
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            "name": "Adam Timlett",
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          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "slug": "harness_bodies_death",
        "title": "Harnesses, Bodies and Deaths: Notes from an Evening",
        "url": "/research/harness_bodies_death/",
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        "people": [
          {
            "name": "Arne Steemers",
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          {
            "name": "Guillem Monso",
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          {
            "name": "Andrei Lixandru",
            "url": "/community#andrei-lixandru"
          },
          {
            "name": "Nitesh Jaswal",
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      }
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    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/FormChangeRepertoire/",
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}