X-Message-Number: 17652 From: Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:33:42 EDT Subject: memories are made of what? --part1_133.206449a.28df68e6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/23/01 4:00:59 AM Central Daylight Time, writes: > >Anyone else spot the article in last week's New Scientist, 15 Sept 2001, > p25, unfortunately not on the web, about a theory concerning long term > memory being encoded in DNA? No, but I remember the fiasco in the 1960s when memory was supposedly encoded in RNA. There was a big hoax involving planaria which supposedly could assimilate memories by eating other planaria... I thought conventional wisdom was that memory was supposed to be encoded in the patterns of dendritic wiring. Did this change? --part1_133.206449a.28df68e6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17652