Jul 19, 2026, 10:46 AM@kctipton @dbattistella the article I read does go into more detail on what memory entails how poorly that is defined or understood. Especially in relation to other species this gets vague. There is a popular understanding of memory in our brain, but the science is leas clear.
@wmd Most people use the term pretty flexibly, as with 'memory foam' (which obviously has no CNS). It seems to be a rhetorical shortcut here. Memory is an electro-chemical process, but there's no mechanism (not even speculated) for how any kind of 'memory' could ever be heritable. A known mechanism that CAN produce results like this is epigenetics, which is an environmentally influenced chemical system that mediates the expression of genes, and is known to have potentially heritable effects.