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Scientists Find Worms that Recently Evolved the Ability to Regrow Complete Head

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Do you have a personality disorder? Then our surgeric decapitation is just what you need. We offer painless decapitation and half an year of head regeneration in a comfort conditions for your body. Tasty glucose with vitamins and protein mix will be injected each half an hour into your bloodstream. Twice a day our nurses will tickle your body to support its reflexes.

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Do you have a personality disorder? Then our surgeric decapitation is just what you need. We offer painless decapitation and half an year of head regeneration in a comfort conditions for your body. Tasty glucose with vitamins and protein mix will be injected each half an hour into your bloodstream. Twice a day our nurses will tickle your body to support its reflexes.

I tried this once as it was advertised as a way to instantly lose 10 points of ugly fat - which did work, but my head grew back again.

Re: Scientists Find Worms that Recently Evolved the Ability to Regrow Complete Head

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Do you have a personality disorder? Then our surgeric decapitation is just what you need. We offer painless decapitation and half an year of head regeneration in a comfort conditions for your body. Tasty glucose with vitamins and protein mix will be injected each half an hour into your bloodstream. Twice a day our nurses will tickle your body to support its reflexes.

Reminds me of eternal sunshine of spotless mind.

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Do these worms have memory? Seems like there might be some interesting experiments exploring the memory/instinct boundary?

I seem to remember reading about experiments showing that some worms retain memory throughout the body.

Researchers discover flat worms retain memories even after decapitation [0]

[0] https://phys.org/news/2013-07-flat-worms-retain-memories-dec...

Re: Scientists Find Worms that Recently Evolved the Ability to Regrow Complete Head

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Do these worms have memory? Seems like there might be some interesting experiments exploring the memory/instinct boundary?

I seem to remember reading about experiments showing that some worms retain memory throughout the body. Researchers discover flat worms retain memories even after decapitation [0] [0] https://phys.org/news/2013-07-flat-worms-retain-memories-dec...

Even humans have neurons in the heart and the gut. It would not surprise me that some kind of memory can be stored in there as well.
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