Planaria and the consumption of brains
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Nov 1999
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David Duffy — 04 Nov 1999, 07:27

You shouldn't be completely dismissive of this.  It was replicated up as
high as cats (trooly rooly), but the effects were never really big. Just
recently they've found there are a few hundred new neurons appearing in
the human brain every day (maybe via the diet;)): it's been suggested
they might represent laying down of new memories. So it can definitely be
used as a scientific fiction to explain how eating your enemies' or
relatives' brains works after all.  

WRT SF antecedents, Damon Knight has a giant amoeba with a similar habit to
the alzabo.  Riffing on race memory, Greg Bear has DNA, (or was it
microtubule based computers?), storing all one's ancestors' experiences in
_Blood Music_.  


David Duffy.

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