Sunday, June 07, 2020

The Human Mind

“Is memory a virus?” — When brains evolved in virtue of viruses.

Shin Jie Yong
Mar 13 · 4 min read
ll land animals have this Arc gene in their brain. This gene serves as the “master regulator” that determines how neuronal synapses (i.e., connections) form in the brain.
Two independent research groups [1,2] have published their findings in the prestigious academic journal, Cell, in 2018 — showing that Arc behaves like viruses and has ancestral roots in retroviruses./.../
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