Michael Levin's planaria experiments show that memories are stored not in the brain or neurons but in bioelectric fields or the body: planaria learn a lesson, have their heads chopped off, grow new heads, and retain the learned memory.
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“He teaches the planaria um some sort of conditions that give it some sort of lesson, uh which planaria can retain. And then he chops off their head, and then they grow a new head, and they remember the lesson.”
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