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Child Proves Butterfly Memory Retention
日本有一个十岁的男孩，十岁， 他是世界上第一个，
最近，大概是今年，
证明了蝴蝶
保留着祖先的记忆。
而且蝴蝶的记忆在经历
毛毛虫蜕变后依然存在。 因为它是完全液化的。
毛毛虫变成蝴蝶的过程 是完全液化的。是的。
这种记忆不仅跨越世代，
而且贯穿了 整个蛹期
也就是蝴蝶的，不管叫什么， 蜕变过程。
那个十岁的男孩是怎么证明的？ 薰衣草。
当它们还是毛毛虫时， 他给它们施加了微弱的电击。
但这个男孩太善良了， 他先在自己的
手臂上试了电击，以便自己也能感受 到， 就像毛毛虫那样，
因为他不想 给它们太强烈的电击。
但他让它们同时接触薰衣草 并遭受电击，
一次又一次，你知道的， 每只毛毛虫大概一天三次。
轻微的电击吗？
是的，但它就像一个很大的，
就像经皮电刺激仪的贴片， 但大概有那么大。
我看到了，他把它放在手臂上， 然后轻轻折起来，因为他不想
伤害毛毛虫。
你知道的，他把它们当成朋友。
不像现在的科学家， 会直接说，好，让我们折磨这家伙。
所以这是巴甫洛夫式的实验。
然后当它们变成蝴蝶时， 他做了一个Y字形的管道。
它们飞下这个管道， 会遇到一个分叉路口，
两端都有糖水。
其中一端放着一个 沾有薰衣草的棉球。
他证明了这些在毛毛虫时期 接受过他训练的蝴蝶，会
直接向右飞，远离 薰衣草，因为它们将它
与负面记忆联系在了一起。
而它们的下一代也做了同样的事，
或者说它们的后代也做出了 完全一样的事情。
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Original transcript (English)
There's a 10 year old boy in Japan, 10 years old, that was the first in the world, recently, maybe this year, proved that a butterfly retains the memory of its ancestors. And a butterfly memory also survives
caterpillar metamorphosis. Because it's fully liquidized. Caterpillar going to a butterfly is completely liquidized. Yeah. And the memory goes through not just generations, but goes through the entire chrysalis phase of butterfly, whatever that's called, transformation.
How did the 10 year old boy prove it? Lavender. So when they're caterpillars, he gives them a tiny little shock. But the boy was so kind that he shocked them on his own arm so he could feel it too, like with the caterpillars, because he didn't want to give them too much shocking.
But he exposed them to lavender and a shock at the same time, over and over and over, you know, three times a day, maybe, per caterpillar. A little electric shock? Yeah, but it's like a large, like a tens unit pad, but it's like that big.
I saw it and he put it on his arm and he gently folded over it because he didn't want to hurt the caterpillar. You know, he considered them his friends. It's not like this modern scientist who would just, yeah, let's torture his ass. So this is Pavlovian stuff.
And then when they become butterflies, he builds this tube that's a Y shape. So they fly down this thing and they've got this fork in the road with sugar water at the end of both. And one of them has a little cotton ball that has lavender on it. And he proved that these butterflies that he had trained, the caterpillar, went
straight off to the right away from the lavender because they had it associated with negative memory. And their children did the same thing, or their offspring did the exact same thing.
