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Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:58AM (#21822530)
Acquiring memories and personalities through organ transplants is a somewhat known urban legend and a fiction trope, but AFAIK the only thing you can transmit through a transplant that's been verifiably demonstrated is pathogens.
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Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by RossBencina on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:51AM (#21823043)
And DNA, in the case of bone marrow transplant:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transp...

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Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by DailyHN on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @06:26AM (#21823842)
What about encoding long term memories in DNA?
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Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by gfo on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:42AM (#21825279)
Sounds like you've been playing Assassin's Creed!

Maybe not quite a 'long-term' memory in the context you're after, but I wonder how this would compare to something like instinct and how we would tell the difference?

Somewhat related to this is Microsoft Research's project to use DNA for data storage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...

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Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by rolltiide on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:59AM (#21822808)
Pathogens and microbes can influence alot about our bodies

Maybe a “memory” like a neuron based thing isnt what is being transmitted, but instead nearest urges directed by unique sets of microbes found in individuals

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