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Episode 38: Morphic Resonance Theory and the Universal Life Force with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD

Expanding on Consciousness

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The Evolution of Form

Genes do play some role, but they're not the primary driving force in my view of evolutionary innovations. It's already known from experiments with rats that if rats learn a new trick in one place, then rats elsewhere in the world can learn it quicker. I think actually there's a perfect way of testing it, staring it in the face through word puzzles. The ideal thing is somewhere the wordel is known by the New York Times. So somewhere in their archives they've got the scores for every single day and when people what scores they've got throughout the day. Now I would predict that the score on wordel would be worse in the morning than in the evening because by the evening

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