"They said it was me who sucked the slime off that rock yesterday. Funny, but I have no memory whatsoever of it."
"They said it was me who sucked the slime off that rock yesterday. Funny, but I have no memory whatsoever of it."
this has many horrifying implications
Snails? Can’t imagine waiting around for the snail to move far enough to demonstrate that it remembered something- talk about boring- couldn’t they have picked a road runner or something?
Add salt.
It would have been an interesting confirmation to repeat the experiment by feeding the invertebrates from their own kind who learned a different maze, to see if that impacted negatively on their learning ability.
Slow day at the lab.
Ah, but did the second snail learn the way through the maze quicker because of added brainpower.
scientists were only slightly surprized to hear the snail say “ hi, I’m John Kerry, and have I told you that I serverd in Vietnam ?, have you also heard that soldiers there acted not unlike the hordes of ghengis khan?”
Not all that new. A lot of studies were done with planaria worms back in the 1960s.
As I recall they showed similar results and were reproducible (the studies).
“A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup.”
This story and the supporting research is bull crap.
The memory is not stored in the DNA, but in the consciousness that provides life to the DNA.
This is why transplant patients such as PA Governor Casey’s heart lung transplant resulted in unusual food cravings.
Memory RNA is a hypothetical form of RNA that was proposed by James V. McConnell and others in the 1960s as a means of explaining how long-term memories were stored in the brain . The concept behind it was that since RNA encoded information, and since living cells could produce and modify RNA in reaction to external events, it might also be used in neurons to record stimuli.
One experiment that was purported to show a chemical basis for memory involved training planaria (flatworms) to solve an extremely simple "maze", then grinding them up and feeding them to untrained planaria to see if they would be able to learn more quickly. The experiment seemed to show such an effect, but it was later suggested that only sensitization was transferred, or that no transfer occurred and the effect was due to stress hormones in the donor. Other experiments seem to support the original findings in that some memories may be stored outside the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_RNA
Memory sucking ping!
Enquiring minds want to know....maybe the ones getting the material just had some pre-built-in pain
