tag > Evolution
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What If the Universe Remembers Everything? - Presentation by Rupert Sheldrake (2025)
#Comment: The most evocative question gets asked by an audience member at the end of the presentation, hinting at the paradoxical nature of this hypothesis, and indeed nature itself:
"You mentioned that its only for self organizing system. But at the same time you where a little bit critical of the issue of the fine tuning constants and ratios, parameters etc. of the beginning of the universe. So at what point do you think morphic resonance comes into effect?"
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Grief is stored in the fascia and diaphragm, anger in the jaw and hands, fear in the gut, shame in the shoulders. Trillions of cells & bacteria collaborate in a embodied, extended cognition that makes up “you.” Nature evolved intelligence very different from our current machines.
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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” - Art by Travis Chapman
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Tree stump and human fingerprint
Human lungs and tree branches
Human nervous system and Tree branches
Human neuron in brain and Plant roots in soil
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Pause for a moment. Take a deep breath. Now ask yourself: why does the information explosion happen right now, in your lifetime? Convenient, isn’t it?
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The computational science community still has a long way to go to realize that the latent space of ideas shaped by evolution is vast & distributed. The West, stuck in a local minimum, is erasing all Indigenous tribes—some of the last sources of truly unique insights.
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Perspective: Ants have been doing agriculture for ~50 million years, cultivating fungi and herding aphids to feed their massive colonies.
