> This doesn't involve what we would typically regard as memory or learning But it is memory nevertheless, just a special kind of it. Maybe more ancient kind c

> This doesn't involve what we would typically regard as memory or learning But it is memory nevertheless, just a special kind of it. Maybe more ancient kind created for diffuse nervous system with abilities limited by abilities of a diffuse nervous system. > and certainly wouldn't generalize to a method of transferring memories in the general case. Yes, I believe, so. One could learn by an injection nothing that couldn't be learned by a hydra. Or maybe a more complex nervous system could learn something on top of learned by a hydra? I mean all those ancient physiological mechanism are mostly intact in our bodies, they work and body relies on them and uses them. Why not to get more than a simple hydra?