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Living organisms show self-sustained motion, make behavioural decisions inresponse to their environment, and replicate themselves in a genetic manner.Recently, nanometre-sized molecular machines have been assembled to realisemacroscopic systems that exhibit self-sustaining dynamics. However, it isunclear how such systems can acquire the ability to make decisions in responseto their environment. We have previously reported that the behaviour of alight-driven self-oscillating crystal becomes complicated when the drivinglight is polarised. Here, we reveal by incorporating a theoretical analysisthat the apparent complexity is due to the orientation of the crystal relativeto the incident light. An additional reason for this complexity is that thecomponents remember the polarity of the preceding light input. Our resultsprovide a new concept, i.e., collaboration between a motor molecule to achieveself-sustaining motion and a responsive machine for storing information torealise self-governed dynamics in a multimolecular architecture.

Modulation in the motion of an autonomous molecular-machine assembly caused by the hysteresis in response to the directionality of the applied light