After talking to an old professor of mine, it bears mentioning that epigenetic
mechanisms such as methylation and histone remodeling are not the only means of
altering transcription. A long established mechanism involves phosphorylation
of transcription factors in the neuron (phosphorylation
It's all a big vindication for genetic memory, that's for certain. I
was comfortable with the notion of certain templates, archetypes,
being handed down as aspects of brain design via natural selection,
but this really clears the way for organisms' life experiences to
simply be copied in some form
Eric Burton wrote:
It's all a big vindication for genetic memory, that's for certain. I
was comfortable with the notion of certain templates, archetypes,
being handed down as aspects of brain design via natural selection,
but this really clears the way for organisms' life experiences to
simply
You can see though how genetic memory encoding opens the door to
acquired phenotype changes over an organism's life, though, and those
could become communicable. I think Lysenko was onto something like
this. Let us hope all those Soviet farmers wouldn't have just starved!
;3
On 12/11/08, Matt
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com wrote:
You can see though how genetic memory encoding opens the door to
acquired phenotype changes over an organism's life, though, and those
could become communicable. I think Lysenko was onto something like
this. Let us hope all those
I don't think that each inheritor receives a full set of the
original's memories. But there may have *evolved* in spite of the
obvious barriers, a means of transferring primary or significant
experience from one organism to another in genetic form... we can
imagine such a thing given this news!
specifically and technically
about *mechanisms* (even if extremely unlikely) and you're not wasting anyone's
time.
Terren
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: FW: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Date
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think that each inheritor receives a full set of the
original's memories. But there may have *evolved* in spite of the
obvious barriers, a means of transferring primary or significant
experience from one organism to another
I don't know how you derived the value 10^4, Matt, but that seems
reasonable to me. Terren, let me go back to the article and try to
understand what exactly it says is happening. Certainly that's my
editorial's crux
On 12/11/08, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric
Ok.
We think we're seeing short-term memories forming in the hippocampus and
slowly turning into
long-term memories in the cortex, says Miller, who presented the results last
week at the Society
for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC.
It certainly sounds like the genetic changes are limited
to help your cause,
either... and that's coming from someone who believes that psychedelics can be
valuable, if used properly.
Terren
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: FW: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Eric Burton brila...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know how you derived the value 10^4, Matt, but that seems
reasonable to me. Terren, let me go back to the article and try to
understand what exactly it says is happening. Certainly that's my
editorial's crux
A simulation of
I've actually got a pretty solid grasp on the underpinnings of this
stuff, Terren. I was agreeing with you: memory formation via gene
modification may be only endemic. Probably not all or the reproductive
cells have their nuclei written to by every, or any, given stimulus.
Yet, there are arguments
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