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Nature's Memory

A Heretical Idea, and the Machines That Could Finally Test It

Jevon Tane, with an AI language model

Web edition, 2026 (before copyediting) · 87k words · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Front Matter

  1. ·Title Page and Preface1.4k

Part I - The Idea and Its Origins

  1. 1A Crystal That Remembers2.3k
  2. 2The Habits of Nature2.4k
  3. 3Morphic Fields and Morphic Units2.5k
  4. 4A Science on Trial2.3k
  5. 5Cousins of an Idea2.5k
  6. 6The Rules of the Game2.5k

Part II - Evidence, Criticisms, and Open Questions

  1. 7Rats, Mazes, and the Long Shadow of McDougall2.4k
  2. 8The Hundredth Monkey and Other Myths2.2k
  3. 9The Sense of Being Stared At2.5k
  4. 10Crystals, Chemicals, and the Puzzle of New Compounds2.5k
  5. 11Morphogenesis and the Mystery of Form2.4k
  6. 12Statistics, Replication, and the File Drawer2.6k
  7. 13What Would Change My Mind2.3k

Part III - Theoretical Deep Dive

  1. 14Beyond the Gene2.1k
  2. 15The Respectable Heretics2.6k
  3. 16The Physics Problem3.6k
  4. 17Information, Entropy, and the Shape of Memory2.2k
  5. 18Systems, Complexity, and Self-Organization2.1k
  6. 19Minds, Panpsychism, and the Question of Experience2.5k

Part IV - Extending the Research with AI, LLMs, and Modern Technology

  1. 20Teaching Machines to Listen for Echoes2.7k
  2. 21The Needle in Everything2.4k
  3. 22Digital Twins and Synthetic Habits2.3k
  4. 23A Trillion Sensors2k
  5. 24Cross-Modal Pattern Hunting2.4k
  6. 25Language Models as Morphic Field Detectors?2.1k
  7. 26New Experiments for a New Century3k
  8. 27The Statistics of the Impossible2.2k

Part V - Dual-Use Potential: Pathways for Good and for Harm

  1. 28The Bright Path2k
  2. 29Healing Fields and the Creative Mind2.6k
  3. 30The Shadow Path3.1k
  4. 31Watching the Field1.9k
  5. 32Governing the Invisible2.3k

Part VI - The Road Ahead

  1. 33A Research Agenda for the Next Twenty Years2.5k
  2. 34Advice to a Young Scientist, and a Final Reflection2.7k

Back Matter

  1. ·Epilogue, Glossary, Reading, and About This Book3k