Species consciousness and instinct. (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, October 21, 2013, 14:59 (4051 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: It might be reasonable to conclude there is monarch species consciousness to carry the instinct. From the studies from near-to-death, or as Sam Parnia calls it, actual death, it has been proposed the brain is a receiver of the mechanism of consciousness. Now assume that species consciousness exists at a quantum level of reality (Heisenberg, Kestner)and affects the brain from that vantage point, it makes a workable theory. The instinct is stored at a quantum level in the brain cells. 
 
And for transplant memory make a similar assumption. Whole organs may stir species consciousness into action in the individual. I'm not assuming single cell consciousness. Organs are transplanted. The sum of all the cells might carry a signal of the consciousness.
 
Any thoughts, anyone?-The list of incidents concerning transplant patients whose lifestyles have changed in accordance with the tastes and habits of the donors, and who remember facts that could only have been known to the donors, makes it clear that unless there is wholesale cheating going on, some cell communities (organs) retain individual characteristics and memories, and are able not only to pass them onto other cell communities, but can even change the make-up of those communities (e.g. sexual orientation, taste). Quite apart from the suggestion that the brain is not the only container of memory (in contrast to what you say above), all of this has far-reaching implications.
 
Without memory it is impossible to learn and to innovate. David, you have singled out species consciousness and instinct. If cell communities (organs) can retain and communicate individual memories, as seems to be the case, there is no reason why they should not also retain collective memories at a less conscious level. This would account for your Monarch butterfly's migration. It would also mean that when we are born, our cells already contain species consciousness and instinct (both of which would be linked to memory), as handed down from generation to generation of cell communities. In the course of our individual lives, these are added to and shaped by the experiences of the organism as a whole. And so while each cell and cell community performs its respective physical functions, they also interact with one another sharing memories and new experiences (which eventually become memories). This process is clearly essential during innovation too, since each cell community must cooperate with the others, using the knowledge gained through each kind of memory, but also adding knowledge of new conditions, just as the brain and apparently the heart add new experiences to their memory storehouse and use them to change the organism as a whole. -Those are my immediate thoughts in response to the phenomenon of cell memory as apparently demonstrated by the experiences of organ recipients.