# eating memories *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Nov 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Paul C Duggan *02 Nov 1999, 21:29* the memories contained in a single cell certainly doesn't have a scientific basis. There was some speculation about rna-memory transfer (based on statiticly invalid samples) from planarians fed other planarians who had learned to do t-mazes did the t-maes faster than other planarians. Larry Niven made alot out of this memory-rna transfer schtick in his stories, but AFAIK, its a scientific dead end. "I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, | paul + | + elated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I | --|-- have to transmit my mental experiences lest I die." | + | + -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | pduggan at world.std.com ---