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If a cell has an injury that impacts its mobility but not its ability to survive because it can adapt -- is that a memory? Are nutrients within a cell? How about its current position in relationship to a food source? Or a buildup of some molecule in response to environmental factors? If not to any of these, why not? Because it's not neuronal by-nature?

The past dictates the future and there are many, many, many, many, MANY ways to encode the past for future self-preservation.

You're doing yourself an intellectual disservice by sticking to one form of "memory". I'd even argue that you're the one anthropomorphizing the hardest by limiting "memory" to an idealized human form of memory.