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How the universe learns | Rupert Sheldrake

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is There a Collective Memory or a Specific Individual Memory?

Most scientists have assumed that memories are stored in brains for well over a hundred years. But they've spent billions of dollars and vast amounts of time looking for these supposed memory traces, or ngrams. They have so far failed to find them, over and over again. So thee's a collective memory, there's also a specific individual memory,. The difference between the two is a differ of degree, not of kind.

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