Cellular Memory, Amnesia And Inception

The smallest entity of life is the single cell, which exists not only as single cell organisms, but as evolution proceeds, as members of a bigger and more complex living organism. During the progression of life, an organism encounters many experiences, and encodes these experiences as memories or knowledge. While it is clear that in larger organisms that this occurs in the brain or equivalent higher order centers, a similar memory process also occurs in single cells within the nucleus- an equivalent higher order control center in which the cell’s genome is stored. Rather than using neural circuits, single cells encode memory in their nucleus by chemical modifications (or methylation) in the cell’s genome. read more

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