🦋 How Life Remembers: From Metamorphosis to Simulation

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Memory is not metadata. It is material. It lives somewhere. And finding where it lives, what survives and what gets erased and why, may be the most important question biology has ever asked.

The chrysalis, it turns out, is not an ending. It is a test. What is truly essential enough to survive the dissolution? What, in the end, does life consider worth remembering?

Perhaps the question applies to more than butterflies.

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