Reposted by Matthew Sims
More popular press on non-neuronal memories from @shilabanerjee.bsky.social. Interestingly enough, Banerjee notes the following:
"Using the broadest definition of learning, our findings show that memory and learning can emerge from chemical networks in a cell, with no brain or neurons of any kind"
theconversation.com
Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks
Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
