Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA24289 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:02:36 GMT Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:56:55 -0800 Message-Id: <200202070856.g178uts05183@mail14.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.161.203] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: ality Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:10:28 -0500
> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca> Re: alityReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>At 10:36 PM 05/02/02 -0800, "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
> wrote:
>
>snip
>
>>You are confusing a behavioral response with a memory. Flatworms have
>>been presented with a light, immediately followed by an electric current
>>running through the bottom of their cages; they learned to jump when the
>>light flashed. Their bodies were ground up and fed to other flatworms who
>>had been spared the experience.
>
>Sorry, this is an Urban myth kind of meme. Poor poor controls had the
>flatworms following slime trails.
>
>Shame too, because I once helped write a humor story about university
>course content being broken down into such small pieces it could be taught
>to flatworms.
>
>Then knowledge in the form of ground up flatworms was fed--like liver pate
>on crackers--to the students.
>
How did the slime trails elevate?
>
>Keith Henson
>
>
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