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Memories are not immutable markers of identity; they can be transferred between individuals and remapped onto new substrates.

Evidence from planarian tail fragment training and metamorphosis suggests memory is substrate-independent process.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Tail fragments of trained planarians retain original learned information, with memories reimprinted on newly-developing brains.
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Empirical evidence that memories persist through regeneration; challenges substrate-dependence of identity.

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Bioelectric memory & morphogenetic identity
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Gap junctions and bioelectric signals encode body-plan and memory patterns across radical biological transformation.
Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
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Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.
Memory as transferable information substrate
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Explores memories as messages and stigmergic traces transferable between agents across time and biological substrates, grounded in planarian regeneration experiments.

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Hypothesis that memories can persist and be reimprinted on new substrates during metamorphosis, regeneration, and brain replacement; tested in planaria and butterflies.

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