Re: Aberrant Anthropology
Braxton (bsheaff@epix.net)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:30:23 -0500
In article <789784313snz@rwentk.demon.co.uk>, leo@rwentk.demon.co.uk wrote:
> In article <3epkob$88e@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> alain@quince "Alain DAGHER" writes:
>
> > Braxton (bsheaff@epix.net) wrote:
> >
> > : I can understand how he might have skewed the brain eating...
Well this is Braxton again...and am I disappointed. I guess I'll have
to stop eating the little fellows-just kidding. I'm glad that I was
corrected. I actually picked the information up from my Psych. 101 in
college--'course that was in the early 70's--very early. I never heard
much more about the experiment, and wondered where it went.
I've only managed to quickly scan the thread so far, but I am curious
as to the memory storage. From my last reading which is probably quite
dated, 'they' were saying that memory was stored electrically for a time
and then was transferred into a more stable form within a year to a
biochemical storage or synaptic alteration. If you'd like to comment go
for it...
Also, in the original question, the work the gentleman mentioned
discussed the possibility of brain-eating primates gaining in
intelligence. That does not pass it on to the next generation. Even if the
planarial project was correct, the offspring would be as slow as the adult
was originally; unless Jung was correct in archival memories. Which I
don't believe ever panned out.
Thanks again-
The humble Braxton
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