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Adding to this, I just want to quote a post made in a different thread [1] about bacterial memory:

"Not only simpler lifeforms. Cases with humans that may indicate a memory transfer after organ transplants are also documented:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31739081/

>The acquisition of donor personality characteristics by recipients following heart transplantation is hypothesized to occur via the transfer of cellular memory

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Memory-transference-...

>There have been perplexing reports of organ transplant receivers claiming that they seem to have inherited the memory, experiences and emotions of their deceased donors, and which are causing quirky changes in their personality."

This post was in response to one describing decapitated worms growing new heads with their old memories intact, as well as old studies where planarians were trained to navigate a simple maze, then fed to other planarians who were then also able to navigate the maze. Fascinating stuff!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372687



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