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by pantalaimon 314 days ago
That's interesting indeed - or take spiders building nets. So there must be some 'microcode' that does get inherited like physical features.

But then you have things like language or societal customs that are purely 'software'.

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I’ve always said that animals have short term and long term memory via the hippocampus, and then there’s supragenerational memory stored in DNA - behaviors that are learned over many generations and passed down via genetics.