08-24-2016, 12:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-24-2016, 03:08 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
This reminds me of an interesting scientific article I saw awhile back about caterpillars and moths that stuck in my mind.
The short version is this: When a caterpillar is turning into a moth, it dies, sort of. It disintegrates into a puddle of protoplasmic goo from which the moth then somehow reforms. (Very little of this process is understood well.) So you'd assume that it's a pure death\rebirth, right? Well, turns out... the moth form retains memories from its caterpillar life.
So that REALLY raises some interesting questions about where\how memories are stored. Even if the scientists are right that the brain doesn't 100% goopify, it still means that the memories are being retained on a cell-by-cell basis, since the neural connections would be gone. (Assuming the memories are local at all, that is.)
The short version is this: When a caterpillar is turning into a moth, it dies, sort of. It disintegrates into a puddle of protoplasmic goo from which the moth then somehow reforms. (Very little of this process is understood well.) So you'd assume that it's a pure death\rebirth, right? Well, turns out... the moth form retains memories from its caterpillar life.
So that REALLY raises some interesting questions about where\how memories are stored. Even if the scientists are right that the brain doesn't 100% goopify, it still means that the memories are being retained on a cell-by-cell basis, since the neural connections would be gone. (Assuming the memories are local at all, that is.)
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