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« Reply #20 on: 24/04/2007 13:54:17 »
wow, that is truly amazing lol, i have heard that people felt feelings for the previous owners or the hearts children, but personally i think thats a load of pig crap, i don't believe in the paranormal or aliens or anything else like that
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« Reply #21 on: 24/04/2007 17:06:28 »
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 24/04/2007 13:32:03
Warriors from some African tribes would eat the liver of those they had killed in the belief that they would gain some of their dead opponents strength. It has been said that Idi Amin practised this when he was dictator of Uganda. I don't know if cannibalistic peoples elsewhere in the world believed the same.

I had heard the same of some South American tribes.

In other cultures, the cannibalism is not of the enemy, but of one's own deceased relative, presumably again allowing some part of the relative to continue to live within one.
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« Reply #22 on: 24/04/2007 17:13:02 »
Quote from: Guttedpiggy on 24/04/2007 13:54:17
wow, that is truly amazing lol, i have heard that people felt feelings for the previous owners or the hearts children, but personally i think thats a load of pig crap, i don't believe in the paranormal or aliens or anything else like that

It is highly controversial, and not accepted by the mainstream, but neither is it paranormal.

The genes in the DNA are a massive memory pool - the only thing is that they are regarded as  a read only memory, set at birth, and unalterable therafter - cellular memory implies that this memory pool may be laterable during one's life (either that, or that there is some other memory pool within the cell that performs the same function).

What would seem perverse to me is that such a high level of redundancy of memory (that the same memory was stored in each and every cell) would seem wasteful of the storage capacity of the cell, and one would imagine that if memories could be stored with each cell, it would make more sense (in regard to storage capacity) that each cell would store different memories.  We also have no evidence that the human conscious mind is able to access cellular level information (even if it were capable of storing it).
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