Cell Memories (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, December 15, 2013, 00:11 (3996 days ago) @ dhw

Transplant memories, however, suggest that the consciousness of the dead person remains within the cells (and not just those of the brain). If both sets of examples are true (we can only speculate), the answer may perhaps lie in some form of personalized energy that is produced by the cells but can remain both inside and outside them. Species consciousness might be a generalized form of that energy (so perhaps the brain/heart/whatever could be both producer and receiver), or it might be cellular memories handed down through all the generations of species' cells (which makes the brain/heart/whatever a container and a producer). Whatever it may be, though I hate to mention this, we are getting perilously close to some kind of panpsychism.-My 2c: All cells in the body came from the same stem cell. Even though they have differentiated tasks, I don't think its outside the realm of possibility to posit that at some level all cells might have some ability to share in memory/consciousness. -I could certainly see the benefit of having a tight signaling relationship between the amygdala and the heart, and that a signal to/from the heart could result in information sharing.

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