Yeah last week people on Lemmy were arguing that memory is the simplest thing to exist EVER and that musk's neuralink meant we had matrix reloaded already at the corner
The hubris never ceases to amaze me
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So hold on a minute - does this mean there might be some truth to the whole “eat your fallen enemy to gain experience” thing? That’s wild.
No, because you're eating the flesh, so you're digesting it.
This is more relevant to organ transplants.
Apparently, it's a known phenomenon that some organ transplant recipients seem to inherit some traits and even memories of organ donors.
Wow, these examples are so cool.
Food Preferences:
- developed aversion to meat after receiving a heart from a vegetarian donor.
- experienced nausea after meals post-transplant from a donor with irregular eating habits.
- developed a taste for green peppers and chicken nuggets, foods favored by her donor.
Musical Preferences:
- began enjoying loud music post-transplant.
- developed a love for music after receiving a heart from a musician.
- started appreciating classical music, previously disliked, after transplant.
Sexual Preferences:
- Male recipient of a heart from a lesbian artist experienced heightened desire toward women.
- Lesbian recipient of a heterosexual woman's heart found attraction to men.
Other Preferences and Aversions:
- Landscape artist's heart recipient developed interest in art.
- Dancer's heart recipient shifted color preferences to cooler tones.
- Fear of water developed post-transplant from drowning victim.
Memories:
- describes sudden unusual tastes accompanied by thoughts about their donor's identity and life experiences.
- feels tactile sensations corresponding to the impact of the car accident that killed their donor.
- experiencing flashes of light and heat resembling the trauma suffered by their donor, who was shot in the face.
- describes a vivid dream of reckless driving, mirroring the circumstances of their donor's fatal motorcycle accident.
Some recipients even experience dreams or memories aligning with their donor's identity, such as a woman envisioning a young man named Tim during a dream and later discovering her donor's name as Tim Lamirande
Unfortunately, though, I don't see any mention of how certain they were that the recipients didn't learn these things before experiencing them
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Kind of like how there's taste buds in our lungs.
Isn't this literally the plot to the Reanimator?
Well, it's certainly the plot of Assassin's Creed
I was wondering if there is a link between cellular memory and how trauma is encoded into DNA?
I suppose that explains survival instinct
Kwisatz Haderach here we come
Is this the stuff responsible for organ donation receivers picking up traits of the donor?
Likely not that simple as there would be other factors at play, but good way of thinking. I'm no geneticist but that sounds like it may be a contributing factor, though memory in this case would be functional rather than personality-based.