Cell Memories (Identity)

by dhw, Saturday, October 12, 2013, 14:49 (4059 days ago) @ George Jelliss

GEORGE: The first part of the cited article is quite plausible since it sticks to the known facts. However I am extremely doubtful about the anecdotes offered in the last five paragraphs. These could all result from imaginings based on the patients' knowledge of the source of the donated organ. -I have found another website which later on recounts more anecdotes. These stress that the recipients did not know the donors' histories until after they had had their experiences.-Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants • mabels.org.uk
www.mabels.org.uk/cellular-memory.htm-GEORGE: Presumably DT's "species consciousness" is something like Jung's "collective unconscious" (though the correspondence sounds somewhat paradoxical!): -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
 
and I've always found this concept quite plausible, since it is the result of evolution of living things with nerve systems. It is the common evolutionary part of each person's individuality.-It would certainly tie in with cells carrying personal memories and characteristics. If they can do that, why would they not also carry archetypal memories and characteristics?-GEORGE: However projecting this back onto some "universal consciousness" makes no sense to me. Consciousness or unconsciousness requires a nervous system in which to function.-See my response to David and BBella on the subject of "universal consciousness". This is the big issue: are we or are we not the product of biochemistry? I am (of course!) less certain than you for reasons we have often discussed in the past. They include NDEs, which David has mentioned in his response to you.