X-Message-Number: 7171
From: Anders Sandberg <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: ------HELP W/ COOL CRYONICS PROJECT
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:14:12 +0100
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On 16 Nov 1996, Charles Platt wrote:

> Joseph Strout () wrote:
> 
> > But then, this isn't saying very much, because nematodes have
> > also been shown to transfer this type of memory by freeze-
> > drying the trained worms, grinding them up, and feeding them
> > to other ones. 
> 
> I thought that this well-known experiment had been subsequently
> discredited? 

As far as I remember, it was about planaria in simple labyrinths. The 
trouble was, the plexiglass labyrinths were not washed often enough, so 
the planaria could follow their predecessors slime trails/smell. 

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