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Scientists Just Transferred Memories From One Creature to Another

Sea snails picked up memories of another snail, in an experiment that hasn't been replicated since the 1960s.
By Laura Yan   
May 19, 2018
 

Memory transfer between living creatures may sound like science fiction, but according to scientists at UCLA and a paper published ENeuro, it just became a tested reality: researchers successfully transferred molecules from brain cells of trained snails into untrained snails, giving the untrained snails the trained snails’ instincts, and seemingly their memories.

Researchers experimented on Aplysia californica sea snails, small organisms with large neurons that are relatively easy to work with. When researchers gave snails small electric shocks, they retracted their frilly siphons. Snails that had been shocked before retreated their siphons for longer than new snails.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a20758773/scientists-just-transferred-memories-from-one-creature-to-another/
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Re: Scientists Just Transferred Memories From One Creature to Another
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2018, 08:19:42 pm »
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They once thought they'd done this with planaria, but there was a goof in the experimental design that caused a false positive.  I hope there was none here.
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2018, 08:22:14 pm »

You can have my memories when you pry them from my cold, dead skull.


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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2018, 01:09:14 am »
You can have my memories when you pry them from my cold, dead skull.




Agreed.   And why in the heck would I want someone elses memories?

Of couse they are talking about snails. lol

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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2018, 01:24:35 am »



And why in the heck would I want someone elses memories?


So you know to keep your frilly siphons retracted longer?

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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2018, 01:39:04 am »
You can have my memories when you pry them from my cold, dead skull.

That's the whole point. What you said is exactly what they are trying to do. How would you like to have a brain operation and when you wake up, you are suddenly a qualified neurosurgeon or a certified pilot?
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« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2018, 01:40:05 am »
So you know to keep your frilly siphons retracted longer?
Sounds erotic.

Gastropods have one heck of a weird sex life, so all the help they can get would be good.
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« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2018, 01:48:31 am »
Sounds erotic.

Gastropods have one heck of a weird sex life, so all the help they can get would be good.



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« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2018, 01:54:10 am »
So you know to keep your frilly siphons retracted longer?



Absotutley!  It was learned at a very young age. :laugh:


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« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2018, 02:08:14 am »
How would you like to have a brain operation and when you wake up, you are suddenly a qualified neurosurgeon or a certified pilot?


What if I said I'm both right now?


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« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2018, 04:25:08 am »
That's the whole point. What you said is exactly what they are trying to do. How would you like to have a brain operation and when you wake up, you are suddenly a qualified neurosurgeon or a certified pilot?

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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2018, 08:24:14 pm »
That's the whole point. What you said is exactly what they are trying to do. How would you like to have a brain operation and when you wake up, you are suddenly a qualified neurosurgeon or a certified pilot?
James White wrote a series called Sector General and in it surgeons would download the memories of other surgeons, usually other alien species, to treat patients of that species. They could retain them or have them wiped. Everything imagined is possible....................eventually!

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« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2018, 11:14:00 pm »
That's the whole point. What you said is exactly what they are trying to do. How would you like to have a brain operation and when you wake up, you are suddenly a qualified neurosurgeon or a certified pilot?
Neither of which would necessarily impart either the dexterity or muscle memory for either. It'd likely be like doing brain surgery with WALDOes the first time you ran them.
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