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Do Human Hearts Carry Memories?

Monday May 18, 2009

Categories: Arts and Media
I found this series of videos on Heart Transplant recipients who retained memories from the late anonymous donors whose heart they carry.  The series starts with more emotional "homecoming" type stories but soon moves into some hard science that points to the heart being a major point of memory retention, and also that the heart is 5,000 times more electromagnetic than the brain.  As a result of this potency, the heart actually responds to stimuli before the brain has even finished processing it. Totally cosmic.

Beware there are some shots of actual open heart surgery with really dramatic music:





Continue Reading for parts 3 and 4..



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Charles Cosimano
May 19, 2009 12:53 AM

Truly fascinating stuff. The question I have is this: Is the phenomena only limited to heart transplant patients or does it occur in others as well, such as kidney transplants. Could it be that the old movie "The Hands of Orlac," in which the hands of a murderer take over the mind of a pianist (I think the movie was actually a rather nasty swipe at Paul Wittgenstein) be reality?

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