cellular memory - every cell in our body has its own mind

Here is something I found that I thought was interesting and relevant to our discussions about where consiousness is seated.

angela.

From: MONTGOMERY COLLEGE STUDENT JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
Volume 2 September 2003
Knowing By Heart:
Cellular Memory in Heart Transplants
by
Kate Ruth Linton
Under the supervision of: Tom Anderson

www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/StudentJournal/volume2/kate.pdf

"
On May 29, 1988, a woman named Claire Sylvia received the heart of an 18-year-old
male who had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Soon after the operation, Sylvia
noticed some distinct changes in her attitudes, habits, and tastes. She found herself acting
more masculine, strutting down the street (which, being a dancer, was not her usual
manner of walking). She began craving foods, such as green peppers and beer, which she
had always disliked before. Sylvia even began having recurring dreams about a mystery
man named Tim L., who she had a feeling was her donor.
As it turns out, he was. Upon meeting the “family of her heart,” as she put it, Sylvia
discovered that her donor’s name was, in fact, Tim L., and that all the changes she had
been experiencing in her attitudes, tastes, and habits closely mirrored that of Tim’s
(Sylvia179). Some members of the scientific community and of society, as a whole, may
brush this off as being merely a strange coincidence. However, some believe that
episodes such as this one offer evidence of a concept known as cellular memory, which
is beginning to gather more and more attention in the scientific community as the
technology of heart transplantation improves and affects more people throughout the
world (Bellecci 1).
Cellular memory is defined as the idea that the cells in our bodies contain information
about our personalities, tastes, and histories (Carroll 1). Evidence of this phenomenon
has been found most prevalently in heart transplant recipients. Though cellular memory
may seem too far- fetched for some, several scientists and physicians have looked further
into it as a valid concept and have come up with various theories to try and gain more
understanding of it."


Also check out:

A Change of Heart: A Memoir
by Claire Sylvia (Author), William Novak (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Change-Heart-Memoir-Claire-Sylvia/dp/0446604690


And this (things start to get very strange indeed)
Cell Talk: Talking to your cell(f)
by John Upledger
http://www.amazon.com/Cell-Talk-John-Upledger/dp/1556434618