Reminds me of this result: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/long-term-memories-and-prions/ http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/lo

Reminds me of this result: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/long-term-memories-and-prions/ http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/long-term-... Kandel himself gives some wonderful lectures on this, easily found on YouTube. It leads me to wonder how many other structures out there we have already described and unwittingly utilise, patterns re-discovered for purposes at another level of abstraction.