Memories are messages between agents separated across time; each engram is a stigmergic note left by a past version of self

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Memories as messages between temporal agentsclaim0.861
  Levin proposes viewing memories as stigmergic notes left by past Selflets; parallelizes vertical (temporal) communication with horizontal (social) communication.
• Memories are not immutable markers of identity; they can be transferred between individuals and remapped onto new substrates.claim0.795
  Evidence from planarian tail fragment training and metamorphosis suggests memory is substrate-independent process.
• Memories, as patterns in the excitable medium of cognitive systems, could be seen as active agents in the sense-making processhypothesis0.771
• Memory is a candidate invariant that enables a Self to persist despite drastic alterations of substrate.claim0.759
  Memory transfer across tissues and through metamorphosis supports persistence of Self.
• The material present in the form of memory traces being subjected from time to time to a rearrangement in accordance with fresh circumstances—to a re-transcription.concept0.753
  Freud's insight on dynamic memory rearrangement.
• You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.claim0.747
  Francis Crick's reductionist statement, cited as the epitome of the mechanistic view.
• The Internet is a communal memory that makes it possible for good sequences to be exchanged and spread rapidly.claim0.740
  Identifies the Internet as the natural location and accelerator for the gene pool of morphogenetic sequences.
• The sense-making process of memory interpretation is creative as much as it is driven by information processing.claim0.739
  Emphasis on creativity in reconstruction of memory.