{"id":748,"date":"2026-07-13T05:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/what-happens-to-your-memories-when-your-entire-brain-turns-to-liquid-soup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:41:01","slug":"what-happens-to-your-memories-when-your-entire-brain-turns-to-liquid-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/what-happens-to-your-memories-when-your-entire-brain-turns-to-liquid-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens to your memories when your entire brain turns to liquid soup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar\u2019s brain completely dissolves and rebuilds from scratch to become a butterfly. Yet, tests show the butterfly still retains the memories it learned as a caterpillar.<br \/>\nIf a mind can survive its physical hardware being liquefied and entirely remolded, memory is clearly doing more than just sitting on a neural &#8220;hard drive.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, where is that data actually stored?<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MacrinePhD\/status\/2075930249842266390\">x.com\/MacrinePhD\/status\/2075930249842266390<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar\u2019s brain completely dissolves and rebuilds from scratch to become a butterfly. Yet, tests show the butterfly still retains the memories it learned as a caterpillar. If a mind can survive its physical hardware being liquefied and entirely remolded, memory is clearly doing more than just sitting on a neural &#8220;hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9,37],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consciousness","tag-memory","tag-neuroscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}