Memory in the Flesh: Can memories survive outside the brain?

Post by coldtea » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 6:49 AM UTC

strathmeyer wrote: post #8

bitwize wrote: post #6

Is it Woo Wednesday on Hacker News? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_memory Come on.

"Hey, I wonder if this is about the guy who ground up flatworms. Wow, he's still doing bad science??" We learned about him in our psychology research methods courses. So we were literally taught something is incorrect that is apparently still practiced in the field.

Post by bitwize » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #11

strathmeyer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hey, I wonder if this is about the guy who ground up flatworms. Wow, he's still doing bad science??" We learned about him in our psychology research methods courses. So we were literally taught something is incorrect that is apparently still practiced in the field.

Probably missed the whole content of TFA, which is that his experiments were redone now, with possitive results... It's not like it's impossible to be taught BS (e.g. that "something us incorrect") and it later to be proven true after all...