I was going to say, that the DNA in all the brain cells is identical and unchanging, so it cannot possibly record memories. But I decided to google first, and found this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dneu.22626
It appears that the brain cells in particular actually do develop significant changes to their DNA.
Re:RNA Memory Hypothesis
by eternalban on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:33PM
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He wrote "active and [has encoded information]".
mRNA and tRNA move, so "active". Ribosome is also (re)active, and "the ribosome is itself composed of both RNA and protein, likely reflecting its own descent from an RNA world." [1]
[1]: The Ribosome Moves: RNA Mechanics and Translocation
Re:RNA Memory Hypothesis
by wombatmobile on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:38PM
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> DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins
True!
> What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment.
Yeah, so?
DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins, there are a lot of proteins in a cell and you can also modify them in various ways. A cell has an enormous amount of state, any of it could theoretically store information like memory. There are a lot of different molecules active in a cell, in various modification states, at various locations, and all of that could encode information.
What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment. If RNA were to actually store memory, that would be great. Because determining the RNA sequences inside a cell is something we can do.