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What really blows my mind is they retain memories from their caterpillar stage, even after dissolving into goo.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-remember-caterpillar-experiences/
Definitely gives legitimacy to the idea that dna can store memories.
Wasn't there a post on here recently talking about teaching an animal how to navigate aaze, then they blend up the animal and feed it to another one and they could navigate the maze. And everyone was like why you blending up animals my dude?
Edit: This one appears to be nicer they are just shocking the snails. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180516/Scientists-successfully-transfer-memory-of-one-animal-to-another.aspx
I don't think there's a mechanism to change DNA fast enough for it to store memories.
It does raise some interesting questions, though. We don't know how memory works. Hell, we don't really know how cognition works either.