andy
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2009, 04:43:10 PM » |
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I can not but help find this interesting; to be true it would dictate a fundamental shift in the potentiality, of chemical cell interaction, and therefore the very meaning of life, there is always talk of energy fields and crossovers etc, arguments similar to ghost stories. Tales, becoming “truth” if told enough.
I really can not see this, and can only see it from a story telling point of view,
I would consider that the trauma of the transplant process both physically and mentally, would certainly cause much disruption to the patient and parents of, it is a hidden part of human nature to in times of great stress to associate “tales” and “stories” and miss- associate minutely relevant information to a subject, as though it were fact. As a reassurance to make similar something scary therefore have a lessening effect.
This would be a form of miss guided self preservation as the stories carry relevant information that could benefit a group through shared wisdom, but can in great times of stress be completely irrelevant and even damaging to a group, this may explain why tribal stories are told so often so the information is secure and not able to be misconstrued, because the information held within is so “needed” the subconscious mind will take on benefits to these tales, and disregard the filler, the so called modern human will still have a need to associate through stories and have a need for information, but because of the way information is now shared in “headlines” snippets can become perceived “fact” through default.
I can only say that there would certainly be a comforting presence to the cellular memory thread, from the donor families’ perspective that has drifted over into a believed public perception, or a required hope for a association past the point that the donor passed, in some way a need on the part of the family to “want” a continuation of.
True those cells do have a memory, but this is a physical and chemical memory, (think of a rubber ball if distorted through bouncing would return to a sphere following deformation).this behaviour comparably can be observed in most cells, and can be called a memory in a purely mechanical sense but………….
How this could be associated to a true emotional memory as the lead would suggest of solid organ can only be explained by a popular “wish”, as with fairy tales and camp side stories there can be an element of truth here but it is my belief that the social benefit feeds the gain in telling of the idea in the wish for this to be so, so the stories continue.
I can see no harm in this,
I would explain the majority of the sudden found skills as a form of latent ability awoken in times of stress or in times of nothing else to do! (Stuck in bed in hospital for weeks on end would lead you to do tasks that you would not usually do) hay presto little Jonny can paint! As in those stories associated with cellular memory can be timed of course with transplant - fired by times of emotional or physical stress, think of the phrase your life depends on it, where it is shown you can pull off quite amazing things when you have too, or have the time to try new things,
I can only concur cellular memory in the way that the thread is meaning is a myth but a good myth that is not damaging in any way, and could even be comforting,
I think as with fairies and monsters it is there when we need it.
My son is changing every day – and I am sure if we could a lot of associations could be made between him and the donor, but the same could be said about a complete stranger as time passes things change, interests are developed and skills learnt – and as for the question of taste changes e.g.: food – there is a lasting effect of anesthetic in things taste different and during the period this takes to adjust away, the person may try different things and like them, as in the case of the snickers bar story.
Let’s just say association is comforting -
But hell what do I know>
Andy
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