And yet ... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248710/
Btw, read the site guidelines. This is a place for discourse, not berating others.
Btw, read the site guidelines. This is a place for discourse, not berating others.
[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/insect-brains-melt-and-rewire....
I don't. You're attacking a straw man.
You wrote,
>Erm…memories — by any biologically reasonable definition— are separate from epigenetic changes.
I replied with a study showing the opposite to be true.
You’re selectively quoting and then re-arranging the quotes to attempt to make yourself look better.
Honestly, for someone to be posting this nonsense with a link to their LinkedIn professional profile in their bio is kind of career suicide. You’ve inadvertently stumbled into an argument on a IT tech website with people who are bona fide life scientists and are embarrassed and are clumsily trying to save face.
Feel free to add me on LinkedIn, I have no issue in people knowing who I am; should I be scared or anything? Lol. You should try not being anonymous, just a suggestion, :).
You said:
"Memory [...] is separate from epigenetic changes"
I replied with a study that seems to suggest otherwise. That's not really hard to follow ...
>IT tech website
Hmm naw man, Hacker News is way more than that. Also, why would I be embarrassed? You are just projecting too much unto others, chill.
Nope.
The 2008 study is "the first to demonstrate conclusively that associative memory survives metamorphosis in Lepidoptera".
The article you cited does not disprove this, but rather it shows the brain structure of (some, at least) insects get completely re-arranged before/after their transition to adulthood.
For me, this only makes the 2008 study more interesting, since the memories could still persist, even after a completely new brain architecture (!).
But if we're going to do that, let's do it properly and choose the peer reviewed article written by experts in the field over a blog post written by a "science communicator".
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But I do work as a researcher, publish some interesting papers from time to time and, yes, I think I'm also an "app developer", in the sense that I've made some apps?
These kind of arguments you make really come across as quite infantile, to be honest. I'm going to have to stop engaging with you because no substantial value is added to the conversation while you already crossed the line to personal attacks, several times, even after you've been told about it and pointed to this site's rules. Find somebody else to engage with your tantrums, I'm out.