From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 19 Jun 2003 - 04:49:14 GMT
> > What are the independently detectable carriers of "morphic
> > resonance"?
>
> Sheldrake and I disagree on this point. He regards time to be the
> carrier, that somehow organic forms from the past keep to the current
> of time so as to remain present. I find this unsatisfying, to say the
> least. In my view, the concept of the "past" does not apply to living
> form. From the POV of matter (e.g. the brain), time is the
> substitution of one moment with another. From the POV of organic form
> (e.g. the mind), time is the *accumulation* of moments rather than
> their passage. This is the basis of memory. We can remember the past
> because, as far as mind is concerned, it never went away. Thus we
> need not posit a "carrier" for morphic influences, any more than we
> need a carrier for light waves.
>
Now Dace grants viruses with enough memory to replicate their form.
And where would it be stored, hmmmm? The exact same place ours is,
of course - in the genes. Not in some woo-woo 'morphic resonant field'.
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