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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:33:42 EDT
Subject: memories are made of what?

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In a message dated 9/23/01 4:00:59 AM Central Daylight Time, 
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> >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?

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