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  "thread": {
    "id": 1908,
    "subject": "eating memories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-02T21:29:12+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-02T21:29:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0356@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-02T21:29:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) eating memories",
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          "text": "the memories contained in a single cell certainly doesn't have a\nscientific basis. There was some speculation about rna-memory\ntransfer (based on statiticly invalid samples) from planarians fed other\nplanarians who had learned to do t-mazes did the t-maes faster than other\nplanarians.\n\nLarry Niven made alot out of this memory-rna transfer schtick in his\nstories, but AFAIK, its a scientific dead end.\n\n\"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +\nelated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--\nhave to transmit my mental experiences lest I die.\" |                 + | +\n                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com"
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