Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA08595 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:56:08 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.151] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Song of Myself Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:53:33 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F130YyQU12SVKRum61u00013755@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Aug 2001 21:53:34.0150 (UTC) FILETIME=[B7D32660:01C12F42] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: Song of Myself
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:29:17 +0100
>
> <Sheldrake offers the phenomenon of "phantom limbs" as evidence for
>morphic
> > fields. Unlike an inanimate object, the body wants to be whole. When
>an
> > arm is lost, the individual invariably reports that somehow it still
>seems
> > to be there. This makes perfect sense from the morphic point of view.
> > The
> > fields that regulate the structures of the body are arranged in a nested
> > hierarchy. Protein fields are nested within organelle fields, which are
> > nested within cell fields, which are nested within tissue fields, and so
> > on.
> > The field for an arm is part of a larger field embracing the rest of the
> > body. So it can't be removed just because the arm it regulated is gone.
> > This would explain the sense that the arm is still there in some way.>
> >
> Do keep up Ted. Even those of us who follow this kind of stuff
>through a combination of science magazines, popular science books, and
>science TV shows know what's going on with phantom limbs. (See the popular
>work of Susan Greenfield, or the Indian guy who wrote what I think is
>called
>'Phantoms of the Brain'- I can't remember his name at the moment- I have
>posted it to the list before some time ago).
>
V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee's _Phantoms in the Brain_? Read it a
while back.
[...]
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