Memory transplant claimed in snails

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(2018-05-18, 09:25 PM)Max_B Wrote: I'm not sure that your use of the term 'inherit' is appropriate?

I briefly read the paper... There was no snail breeding, they only injected (and then tested) fully grown adult snails, so I can't really see why you would expect to observe a morphic-resonance-type of information transfer in the control group mentioned in the articles?

Yes - I put "inherit" in quotation marks because it's not inheritance, but something similar acquired by transplant. I'm not sure if there is a word for that.

My thought on morphic resonance was that according to that theory, when the RNA donors were trained with electric shocks, other snails would tend to acquire the same reflex reaction. So it could be that the donees were acquiring it through morphic resonance, not through the transplant. But if that were so, the control group should also have acquired it, which they didn't.

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Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-17, 07:55 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-17, 08:51 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-17, 10:58 PM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-18, 09:58 PM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-18, 10:35 PM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-18, 11:43 PM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-19, 08:18 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-19, 09:00 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-19, 09:15 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-19, 09:23 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by malf - 2018-05-19, 09:16 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by malf - 2018-05-19, 09:26 AM
RE: Memory transplant claimed in snails - by Chris - 2018-05-21, 09:01 AM

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