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Second Brain in The Heart
Second Brain in The Heart
Gut Feelings
Updated on July 22, 2016
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The idea of transplanted cellular memory emerged as early as 1920 in the film "Les Mains d'Orleac" written by science fiction writer Maurice
Renard. A second brain in the heart is now much more than an idea. Prominent medical experts have recently discovered that many recipients
of heart transplants are inheriting donors' memories and consequently report huge changes in their tastes, their personality, and, most
extraordinarily, in their emotional memories. Today new science is testing the theory that the heart is involved in our feelings. So what have
they discovered so far?
Amazing new discoveries show that the heart organ is intelligent and that it sometimes can lead the brain in our interpretation of the world
around us, and in the actions we chose to take. A large number of case studies were enough to prompt some scientists to look differently at the
heart and test old theories that the heart is involved in our feelings and emotions. Since cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard's first successful
human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967, heart transplant recipients have had intriguing experiences, so strange and out of character
that they seek to meet the families of their donors to find out what is going on. Could they have inherited certain behavioral and character traits
through cellular memories stuck in the heart of their donors?
FACTS
The following facts are only a few of the many cases reported as evidence of something new and extraordinary happening to heart transplant
recipients: They seem to take on the likes and dislikes of their donors.
A gentle, soft-spoken woman who never drank alcohol and hated football got a heart from a crashed biker donor and turned into an
aggressive beer drinking football fan.
Her new heart wants to play football | Source
A lazy male couch potato received a heart from a stuntman. He inexplicably started training fanatically for no apparent reason until he
became a true athlete.
A 47-year-old Caucasian male received a heart from a 17-year-old African-American male. The recipient was surprised by his new-found love
of classical music.
What he discovered later was that the donor, who loved classical music and played the violin, had died in a drive-by shooting, clutching his
violin case to his chest.
A man who could barely write suddenly developed a talent for poetry.
Most Amazingly...
An eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a ten-year-old murdered girl had horrifying nightmares of a man murdering her donor. The
dreams were so traumatic that psychiatric help was sought.
The girl’s images were so specific that the psychiatrist and the mother notified the police.
Using the most detailed and horrid descriptive memories provided by the little girl, the police gathered enough evidence to find the murderer,
charge him, and get a conviction for rape and first-degree murder.
Possible Explanations
Doctors now attempt to explain why organ recipients are hosts to donors’ memories and emotions, also known as "cellular memories". While a
handful of scientists are skeptical and dismissing this strange phenomenon as post-surgery stress or reaction to anti-organ rejection drugs,
there are also a growing number of experts who believe cellular memories are indeed transplanted from donor to recipient with organs.
Professor Gary Schwartz says that “Feedback mechanisms are involved in learning. When we talk, for example, about how the brain learns, we
talk about what we call neural networks in the brain. It turns out that the way a neural network works is that the output of the neurons feeds
back into the input of the neurons. And this process goes over and over again. So long as the feedback is present the neurons will learn. If you
cut the feedback, there is no learning in the neurons."
Dr. Candace Pert, a pharmacologist at Georgetown University believes that the mind is not just in the brain, but also exists throughout the
body. This school of thought could explain such strange transplant experiences. "The mind and body communicate with each other through
chemicals known as peptides. These peptides are found in the brain as well as in the stomach, in muscles and in all of our major organs. I
believe that memory can be accessed anywhere in the peptide/receptor network. For instance, a memory associated with food may be linked to
the pancreas or liver and such associations can be transplanted from one person to another".
Feedback Memory
"The implication is that it's important for the neurons to have the feedback for the learning to take place. By extension, any system that has
feedback is going to learn. We learn to shoot a ball into a basketball net by getting feedback about whether we are accurate or not. We learn to
speak by getting feedback about whether we're accurate or not. And so consequently, any system, any set of cells that has feedback
mechanisms in a network is going to learn the same way that neurons learn. That's what is called feedback memory."
Scientific research today clearly shows that poets and great scholars throughout history have been right all along. The heart has intelligence
and plays a particular role in our experience of emotions.
There may be some truth in it, it would certainly explain a lot about “gut feeling”.
Deep down I've always felts that the heart spoke for itself. I'm glad science finally catches up.
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