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Michael Levin Λ Joscha Bach on The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

The Memory of a Planarion

A body of a planarion is able to store at least two different representations of what a, probably many more, but we've found two so far. The latest thing you can do is you can actually treat it with some of the same compounds that are used in neuroscience as memory blockers. So things that block recall or memory consolidation. When you do that, you can make the animal forget how many heads it's supposed to have. And then they basically turn into a featureless circle when you can just wipe them completely.

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