Comments on: Remembering Paul Kurtz 1925-2012 http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/10/22/remembering-paul-kurtz-1925-2012/ Vancouver's Number 1 Skeptical Podcast and Radio Show Thu, 02 May 2013 19:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Don McLenaghen http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/10/22/remembering-paul-kurtz-1925-2012/#comment-7147 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:14:15 +0000 http://radiofreethinker.com/?p=3501#comment-7147 I responded on the appropriate posting (http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/10/23/radio-freethinker-episode-186-cellular-memory-edition/)

Thanks for the input

Don
“Eyes open – Minds on”

]]> By: Gaffi http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/10/22/remembering-paul-kurtz-1925-2012/#comment-7111 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:23:22 +0000 http://radiofreethinker.com/?p=3501#comment-7111 And of course, I realized much after the fact that I commented on the wrong post on the website. Hopefully my preamble leads you to the right context. :-)

]]> By: Gaffi http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/10/22/remembering-paul-kurtz-1925-2012/#comment-7011 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:18:47 +0000 http://radiofreethinker.com/?p=3501#comment-7011 I’m a bit behind on listening to the podcast, so I just listened to this one this morning. After the segment regarding cellular memory, I felt I had to speak up on one piece: is it really impossible for this phenomenon to exist? Personally, I don’t believe this to be a real occurrence, but as you point out on the show, one should keep an open mind and be willing to accept that everything you know and believe may be turned on its head at some point.

To attempt to validate that thought, I have one theory. I am far from being an expert in any science, and I have no idea if there has been any study to confirm or refute it, but here it is.

– Our intangible mind, consciousness, memories, what have you, are kept in our brain.
– Our brain in made up of neurons, cells which transfer electrical and chemical impulses to enable our bodies to do everything our bodies do.
– Neurons are also found in nerves, thus they are present throughout the body, not just in the brain.
– If our memories are kept in neurons, then how do we know (do we even ‘know’) that memories only live in the brain?
– I assert that it is possible for those memories to be stored elsewhere in the body, and it is possible (not necessarily probable) that those memories stored in a neuron attached to some other body part may survive a transplantation.

Do I really think this is the case, not really (again, lack of facts one way or the other), but if some new study came out essentially proving this, I could easily believe it to be true.

Do you guys have any thoughts on this?

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