🧵 man proofs memories are in DNA molecules
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:42:11 UTC No. 16103647
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41
When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in, repairing this damage and helping to cement the memory, a study in mice shows. The findings, published on 27 March in Nature, are "extremely exciting," says Li-Huei Tsai, a neurobiologist. They contribute to the picture that forming memories is a "risky business," she says. Normally, breaks in both strands of the double helix DNA molecule are associated with diseases including cancer. But in this case, the
>DNA damage-and-repair cycle offers one explanation for how memories might form and last.
It also suggests a tantalizing possibility: this cycle might be faulty in people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, causing a build-up of errors in a neuron's DNA, said Jelena Radulovic, a Serb. To better understand the part these DNA breaks play in memory formation, Radulovic and her colleagues trained mice to associate a small electrical shock with a new environment, so that when the animals were once again put into that environment, they would 'remember' the experience and show signs of fear, such as freezing in place. Then the researchers examined gene activity in neurons in a brain area key to memory -- the hippocampus. They found that some genes responsible for inflammation were active in a set of neurons four days after training. Three weeks after training, the same genes were much less active.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:14:34 UTC No. 16103690
>man proofs memories are in DNA molecules
that implies they are somehow stored in DNA. shouldn't I have some of my parents memories or smth?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:17:54 UTC No. 16103693
>>16103690
not necessarily because the parents memories do not transfer to their sperm and egg cells..
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:20:39 UTC No. 16103775
>>16103647
>When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in
This sounds extremely painful. I'm happy the brain is unable to feel pain.
>>16103693
What if one made sperm to have DNA strains that form such molecules?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:33:13 UTC No. 16103800
>>16103775
>What if one made sperm to have DNA strains that form such molecules?
it might work but remember that sperm is only half of a persons genome and other half comes from the egg cell
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:35:07 UTC No. 16103804
>>16103647
Assassin's creed when?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:40:00 UTC No. 16103808
>>16103804
kek
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:44:24 UTC No. 16103817
>>16103690
you do, in fact, have all your ancestor's memories.
take this as you might, (((they))) do not want you to know this
memory is not a function of the brain
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:29:09 UTC No. 16103901
>>16103647
Where is that schizo that was saying the brain is a projector for converting experience into dna? How in the fuck is this not pure schizo garbage? You guys realize this is actually the end of materialism right. There is no solution for complexity, for entropy, or anything. It is literally the ghost breaking the machine. Except if there were some ethereal body smashing things apart, there is zero reason for chemistry to hold up or for recall to be possible because the electrochemical structure couldn't possibly account for its change.
This is legitimately scary guys. There was never supposed to be a time where dualism could break down. Monist revelations were only ever to be accessible through reasoning. Bottled lightning doesn't fucking think.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:48:03 UTC No. 16103929
>>16103817
I partially agree in the evolutionary sense. Bad shit that happened in the past shaped some responses, winning responses. In this way some of the memories from the past are burned into the DNA. I see it as mandatory ones, the most important lessons for what worked so far. See snake shape jump back.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:56:47 UTC No. 16103939
>>16103647
>nature.com
Not a valid source of scientific information. Nature is a political propaganda outlet posing as a scientific journal for clout, its not actually a real scientific journal and nothing published in Nature is true.
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:59:19 UTC No. 16103942
>>16103901
>This is legitimately scary guys.
humans always chimped out when they learned something new which went against what they believed. nothing ever changes really, in reality, it's the same old reality, yet humans once in a while chimp the fuck out because they had some ideas which are proven wrong.
why does this shit always happen with humans whenever they learn anything new?
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:59:34 UTC No. 16103944
>>16103929
no it's morphic field
Anonymous at Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:01:42 UTC No. 16103947
>>16103939
based