What’s striking about this work is how learned avoidance behaves almost like a biological version of the Reality Drift Equation. Ancestral experience compressing into molecular memory that shapes behavior long before direct exposure. The fact that these worms inherit a kind of preparedness across generations highlights how evolution uses temporal drift to pass forward subtle informational traces of past environments. It’s a reminder that cognition isn’t just in the brain. Even simple organisms carry forward patterned responses that function like inherited signals of meaning.