All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule

We actually borrowed our ability to form memories from viruses.

How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the plastic changes in neurons was critical to memory consolidation.

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I wonder if all neuronal gene Arc molecules in the brain share the same memories?

Tau.Neutrino said:

All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule

We actually borrowed our ability to form memories from viruses.

How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the plastic changes in neurons was critical to memory consolidation.

more…

I wonder if all neuronal gene Arc molecules in the brain share the same memories?

OMG.

E.E. (Doc) Smith was right. Book “second stage lensman” from 1953.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule

We actually borrowed our ability to form memories from viruses.

How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the plastic changes in neurons was critical to memory consolidation.

more…

I wonder if all neuronal gene Arc molecules in the brain share the same memories?

OMG.

E.E. (Doc) Smith was right. Book “second stage lensman” from 1953.

One of my favourite SF authors.