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    "id": 1918,
    "subject": "Planaria and the consumption of brains",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-11-04T07:27:59+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-04T07:27:59+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0375@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-04T07:27:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Planaria and the consumption of brains",
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          "text": "You shouldn't be completely dismissive of this.  It was replicated up as\nhigh as cats (trooly rooly), but the effects were never really big. Just\nrecently they've found there are a few hundred new neurons appearing in\nthe human brain every day (maybe via the diet;)): it's been suggested\nthey might represent laying down of new memories. So it can definitely be\nused as a scientific fiction to explain how eating your enemies' or\nrelatives' brains works after all.  \n\nWRT SF antecedents, Damon Knight has a giant amoeba with a similar habit to\nthe alzabo.  Riffing on race memory, Greg Bear has DNA, (or was it\nmicrotubule based computers?), storing all one's ancestors' experiences in\n_Blood Music_.  \n\n\nDavid Duffy."
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