Blood transfusion/ organ donation: does the recipient take on any memory / personality characteristics from...

Question

the donor?

I'm serious! No TV shows, S/F novels, rumors, speculations, please!

Any response beginning with "you don't understand!" will not even be read. If I understood, I would not have to ask.

Any licensed doctors, medical students out there who know about this...?

There's RNA being physically transferred, isn't there...?

Isn't at least some of it memory RNA...?

What sort of evidence for/ against transfer of specific memories (learned information) is there?

What sort of evidence for/ against acquisition of personality or character traits is there?

Thanks to all serious answerers.

Answer 1

In a blood transfusion, you're simply putting into your body some machines capable of picking up oxygen and carrying it to somewhere else. Your blood performs physiological functions. It does not interact with your genetically. Your memory is represented by the chemically altered topology of the neural synapses in your brain. If your liver is replaced by someone else's liver, your brain can't tell the difference, as long as it works. The liver is also a chemical/biological 'factory'. It receives nutrients from the blood and draws certain molecules out of the blood and transforms them into other molecules. The liver's function is genetically determined, but mine works exactly the same way yours does.

There is no known scientific phenomenon that corresponds to the old concept of 'memory RNA'.