# Distributed Biological Memory **Entity class:** Scientific hypothesis **Domain:** Memory / Systems biology **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Distributed biological memory is the hypothesis that learned state can depend on bodily, molecular, electrical, or developmental organization beyond a conventional brain-centered account. ## Mechanism and significance Regeneration experiments motivate the question, but claims about where a specific memory is stored require distinctions among behavioral persistence, relearning, tissue signaling, and neural reconstruction. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[C. elegans Whole-Brain Simulation]] · [[Liquid AI]] · [[Regenerated-Brain Memory Persistence]] · [[Voxel-Level Brain Imaging]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.