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There are a lot of claims without any evidence in that blog post. "The RNA in a cell is the only entity which is active and carries significant bit density." is one of them.

DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins, there are a lot of proteins in a cell and you can also modify them in various ways. A cell has an enormous amount of state, any of it could theoretically store information like memory. There are a lot of different molecules active in a cell, in various modification states, at various locations, and all of that could encode information.

What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment. If RNA were to actually store memory, that would be great. Because determining the RNA sequences inside a cell is something we can do.



I was going to say, that the DNA in all the brain cells is identical and unchanging, so it cannot possibly record memories. But I decided to google first, and found this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dneu.22626

It appears that the brain cells in particular actually do develop significant changes to their DNA.


He wrote "active and [has encoded information]".

mRNA and tRNA move, so "active". Ribosome is also (re)active, and "the ribosome is itself composed of both RNA and protein, likely reflecting its own descent from an RNA world." [1]

[1]: The Ribosome Moves: RNA Mechanics and Translocation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581036/


> DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins

True!

> What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment.

Yeah, so?




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