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ScholarlyArticle: "The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09619-2

Does this multi-day interval correspond to any of the intervals estimated in studies of neural representation drift?

From yesterday regarding carbon microtubules, quantum cognition, and representation drift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620897

How do astrocytes affect representation drift?

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The drift is probably oscillatory in nature. It's process affecting material. Astrocytes and nanotubules don't directly affect the drift, they are affected by it simply as the memory is shifted by a material/process interaction.

I haven't heard that they've identified period(s) of or resonance from as a cause of representation drift.

Is this fair to say:? Astrocyte activations are more stable for a longer period of time than other neuroactivations.

It's a theory of drift postulated by neurobiologists.

Unsure if they're more stable.

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