Cellular Learning

Imported from Google Keep on 2026-03-23.

Notes

single cell learning has not yet been proved. there is NO experimental evidence https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69adfcba509c819189c272edfbd5d609

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation Importance. Lewis Wolpert, pioneering developmental biologist in the field, has been credited for noting that “It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life

3 kings are ur parents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MJMwbjAAAAAJ&hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaspora animals that can exhibit learning without memory?

talk style:

• big pictre with no details
• problems addressed as anecdotes.raising hand, croissant

iPhone OS/ animal OS analogy

• before phones, there were things that could do many functions of phone seperately - calculator, mp3 player, camera
• but evolved phone finally had everything
• before animals, primitive organisms could do many things individual - like memory/learning and immunity
• animals later packaged them all in one, like iphone packaged all of devices in one.

Learning in non-neural systems

• sam gershman review: https://elifesciences.org/articles/61907

• https://chatgpt.com/share/6928be49-5364-8002-b1f7-1df2a65cc4a5 gpt discussion Katz’s experiment of stirring and not seeing paraceium close to wire is an amazing example of how an unknown theory might come out of now-where and break the existing interpretation calling for more experiments:

• if stirring destroys the gradient, it also does “contigency degredation”

• molecular memory networks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X25015219

Any biochemical network with feedback and multiple timescales can, in principle, implement learning rule

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39689686/ cellular cognition - rajan and marshall

nice overview by chatgpt: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69288b1f015081919234783a1da42e5a

• mechanistic model of cellular learning https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224014301

Key links

• Gastrulation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation
• Capsaspora — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaspora
• Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells — https://elifesciences.org/articles/61907
• Cellular cognition — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39689686/
• Mechanistic model of cellular learning — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224014301
• Molecular memory networks — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X25015219