* woo * I remember this cell memory idea was big a few years ago when Claire Sylvia wrote A Change of Heart, which got made into a TV movie. She had a heart-lung transplant and believed she began to experience food cravings and personality changes which she later learned were identical to those of the young man whose heart/lungs she'd received.
So then people began to write books claiming not just that all cells have memory, but that the heart in particular has memory and some means of having an impact on personality, so that some type of personality change follows a heart transplant. * end woo *
How is it possible for the heart to encode memory? How is different from believing the stomach could encode memory, and how would the stomach encode or store memory? If all memory or, let's say, personality characteristics, are somehow stored in the DNA, then why would people lose any function at all, or why would people experience personality changes, when their brains are damaged? Shouldn't they be able to pull from the memory stored in the DNA in the rest of their body, or their hearts in particular?