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Memory Across Time & Space - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Biologist

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Morphological Resonance in Animal Learning

According to morphic resonance, if an animal learns a new trick, then rats all around the world in London, Melbourne, Australia, etc. should learn the same trick more easily just because they've learned that new trick. If you do this over several generations, they go on doing it without selecting them. This is called epigenetic inheritance and used to be a big taboo in the 20th century in biology. It's already being shown that rats that learn to escape from a water maze get quicker and quicker when others have done it too.

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