The Heart Remembers
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“ Some recipients develop aversions after obtaining a new heart. For example, a 5-year-old boy received the heart of a 3-year-old boy but was not told the age or cause of his donor's death. Still, he offered the following description of his donor following surgery:
"He's just a little kid. He's a little brother like about half my age. He got hurt bad when he fell down. He likes Power Rangers a lot I think, just like I used to. I don't like them anymore though" [24, p. 70]. The donor died after falling from an apartment window while trying to reach a Power Ranger toy that had fallen on the ledge of the window. After receiving his new heart, the recipient would not touch Power Rangers |24].
Another example comes from a 9-year-old boy who received the heart of a 3-year-old girl who drowned in the family pool. Although the recipient had no knowledge of his donor or how she died, he developed an aversion to water following his transplant. His mother explained, "Jimmy is now deathly afraid of the water. He loved it before. We live on a lake and he won't go out in the backyard. He keeps closing and locking the back door walls. He says he's afraid of the water and doesn't know why"
[24, р. 69].”
Don’t know where this is from, but huge implications for where information/memory is stored — some connections between nodes of energy produce emergent consciousness or sense of self? Need help here! Please reply with thoughts! -
Great topic. I'm going to make one too (need a moment).
The heart is wild. No time like the present to shine some light on it.
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@highseabasch said in The Heart Remembers:
Don’t know where this is from, but huge implications for where information/memory is stored — some connections between nodes of energy produce emergent consciousness or sense of self? Need help here! Please reply with thoughts!
Also don't panic, chill out. Nobody knows. Or the answers are scattered in journals and artistic metaphors awaiting discernment and distillation. Read up and keep talking, maybe we’ll find out.
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@ThinPicking We will figure it out!
What is sticking for me is that the alive kid talks about the dead kid like he’s still alive:
“He likes Power Rangers a lot I think, just like I used to.” -
They probably (to me, probably) don't go very far.
Maybe we're all going to the seaside one day. Plenty of work to do in the meantime.
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What happens to you in the End?
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@highseabasch that’s the correct way to talk about people imo