Memories outside the brain

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 31, 2016 05:25 AM by Magical Realist.)

This experiment has interesting implications for some memory being somehow stored in the rest of the body outside of the brain. Perhaps in the nervous system, or even in the DNA itself. Fascinating research:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na...48/?no-ist

**Magical Realist** · Sep 1, 2016 08:42 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_memory

**C C** · Sep 3, 2016 02:27 PM

So James McConnell might be vindicated in some other way after all. I vaguely remember Larry Niven featuring the old RNA-memory proposal in some novel or short story of his.

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