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Ask HN: What is the most primitive creature having a memory?
Does a beetle remembers anything?
- rolph 4y agoaplysia exhibits low level learning, indirectly evidencing some sort of memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplysia_gill_and_siphon_withdrawal_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplysia_gill_and_siphon_withdr...
- abudabi123 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode The word nematode comes from the Modern Latin compound of nemat- "thread" (from Greek nema, genitive nematos "thread," from stem of nein "to spin"; see needle) + -odes "like, of the nature of" (see -oid). Rock has memory and nematode worms live in Earth's lithosphere.
- Someone 4y agoDefine “memory”. If you think “react differently to the same stimulus as before not because of sensory or motor fatigue” requires a memory, single-cell organisms may qualify (Google “habituation in single cell organisms”, and find, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation, https://www.sciencealert.com/this-single-celled-animal-can-make-complex-decisions-even-without-a-nervous-system https://www.sciencealert.com/this-single-celled-animal-can-m...)