New work by Héloïse Athéa and Guillaume Montagnac on memory definitions and concepts. From their abstract (and relevant to me):
--We argue that cellular memory is heuristically productive and can be understood as a “definition as a hypothesis.”--
@philosobio.bsky.socialInteresting new paper on cellular memory - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Of what is “cellular memory” the name? Perspectives across the life sciences - Biology & Philosophy
In contemporary life sciences, memory is increasingly attributed well beyond its paradigmatic uses in psychology and cognitive science.Immunological and epigenetic memory are among the best-known unco...