memory transfer
Copying stored experiences
Memory transfer is the hypothetical movement of memories from one brain to another, or from a brain to an external medium.
The concept appears primarily in science fiction, where characters upload consciousness to computers or download skills directly into their minds.
In neuroscience, it refers to experimental attempts to transplant learned behaviors between organisms: Early memory transfer experiments claimed flatworms could acquire knowledge by eating trained worms.
The term also covers more mundane acts of preserving memories externally—writing, recording, photographing—though this stretches the meaning.
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- mind meldTelepathic merging of consciousness
- uploadTransfer data outward
- downloadRemote-to-local data transfer
- engramStored neural record
neural · implant · synaptic · recall · total recall · encoding · neural link · inheritance · donor · recipient · psychic · telepathy · copy · paste · brain dump · backup · imprint · past life
memory transferlived experience
Knowledge from personal participation
learning by doing · trial and error · personal experience · genetic memory · instinct
memory transfermemory erasure
Eliminating stored recollections
memory wipe · amnesia · forgetting · memory loss · oblivion
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