Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants

There is a chapter in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers that addresses this topic. Of course, Mary Roach approaches all of this very lightheartedly.
 
Locknar said:
I sure hope Mayday joins in the conversation, and can provide something other then a campfire story to substantiate her claim wrt cellular memory.
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More likely, she'll deny every making the claim and accuse you of putting words in her mouth (and being cynical).
 
This is an annoying an claim. It's typically associated with the heart transplants. The main character will become aware of the donors thoughts or feelings. I can't name the movie I've seen it in but they end up saving the donor's family or something like that because of precognition. Too much woo for me to suspend my disbelief and why does "soul" have to be in the heart anyway? It make more sense if the soul was in the brain. Myths make little sense if any thought is given on the subject.
 
My pulmonic heart valve is replaced with a cadaver valve. So far I don't feel the urge to walk around very slowly and eat people's brans. I'd say I'll let you know if that happens but I'm pretty sure it'll be obvious without me saying it.

Braaaaaaaiiiins.
 
KateHW said:
My pulmonic heart valve is replaced with a cadaver valve. So far I don't feel the urge to walk around very slowly and eat people's brans.
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Yay for Vegan Zombies!!!!


Sorry I am having too much fun at your spelling-error expense :boxedin:
 
Aitch said:
Prior to my kidney problems :(, I was a blood donor.

Does that mean there are a few people around with a sudden un-explained urge to listen to The Grateful Dead and the works of JS Bach, while drinking a bit more than is good for them? :)
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Nah, with blood donations, all the cellular memories are removed via succession - that's why they ask you to squeeze that little ball! :)
 
Smackety said:
Heart transplants are the key though - love and passion come from the heart as we all know!

I think if we managed a brain transplant then the person would be a LOT different.

A real brain transplant
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Wow. I was actually grossed out by the monkey head transplant. I think it disgusts me less to think of brain eating zombies than of that weird monkey with the wrong brain attached. Gah.
 
Can you please book me in for a blood transfusion from a person who liked cooking, cleaning, eating vegetables and exercising.
 
Our favorite psychic, Sylvia Browne, also peddles this idea:

Cell Memory
Cell memory is based on the idea that whatever happens in our lives, each cell "records" it - spiritually, of course. Homeopaths have cherished this idea for a long time now, and people like Dean Radin and Gary Schwartz also use it to explain purported - but unsupported - claims of a "surviving" consciousness or spirit. Psychic Sylvia Browne takes it a few steps further.
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Greg Bear has an awesome sci-fi book, Blood Music, about this idea of Cellular Memory. I know very little about genetics, biology etc. so I can't criticize his science but the story is quite thought provoking :)
 
This all reminds me of Dr. Strangelove, where Peter Seller's wheelchair-bound character had the hand transplant from the Nazi, and he could barely control it :)
 
According to Sylvia Browne, not only is there such a thing as cellular memory, but we have cells in us whih contain memories from our past lives!

Birthmarks, for example, are often located where a person was stabbed, shot, or hit with an arrow in a past life.

Also, our phobias are usually a result of experiences in past lives. Afraid of the water? You probably drowned in a past life.

What any of this has to do with cells (or reality, for that matter) escapes me.
 
FSM said:
Wow. I was actually grossed out by the monkey head transplant. I think it disgusts me less to think of brain eating zombies than of that weird monkey with the wrong brain attached. Gah.
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RSLancastr said:
According to Sylvia Browne, not only is there such a thing as cellular memory, but we have cells in us whih contain memories from our past lives!

Birthmarks, for example, are often located where a person was stabbed, shot, or hit with an arrow in a past life.

Also, our phobias are usually a result of experiences in past lives. Afraid of the water? You probably drowned in a past life.

What any of this has to do with cells (or reality, for that matter) escapes me.
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Yikes! Of course, her rumored Masters in English Literature would make her a expert on this kind of stuff?

Or perhaps, her Spirit Guide Francene told her...yet Francene seems to be wrong a awful lot.
 
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