Whirling and swerving, a bacterium is swimming in a test tube, foraging for food. On the surface of a vibrating bath, a droplet starts walking. A certain similarity, but mostly dissimilarity, between the physical memory that emerges in Couder's droplet experiments and the biological memory of the bacterium is noted. It serves as a starting point for a short perspective and speculation on the multilevel, loopy memory of living matter.
@article{arxiv.2011.10953,
title = {Walking droplets, swimming microbes: on memory in physics and life},
author = {Albert Libchaber and Tsvi Tlusty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10953},
year = {2020}
}