Sender Spike
3 min readNov 6, 2021

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Although biased, rationalwiki has a solid and properly sourced info in general. It is merely biased in its attitude. But since I took your point, I gave you a set of different links. Also, if you dismiss Coyne on the grounds of his outspoken "neo-Darwinism", you must dismiss practically all biologists (including Noble) because in general, scientific terms they all agree (abiogenesis - genetic mutation - epigenetics - natural selection). And frankly, that would be insane because the evidence in support of modern biology is overwhelming.

That being said, Sheldrake's morphic resonance basically boils down to telepathy. So far so good, but the whole theory is so wrong I don't even know where to start. So just some random points:

1) Memory of universe (that is all its previous states) is physically encoded in its current state as is obvious from QM. That does not mean that your memories are "out there". It just means that mental representations of memories that are not your own can somehow be constructed in your brain (and as far as I can tell, even events that happen in present but are otherwise impossible to know in conventional ways). Question is, how. But telepathy as tapping into some non-physical field certainly ain't that. Fields are by definition physical.

2) Membranes are synthesized genetically. Period.

3) His experiment with dogs knowing when their owner comes home is laughable. I observed dogs for several decades and they hear their owner approaching. The distances at which they hear and can filter out a particular sound is astonishing especially considering the environmental noise. They can simply distinguish the sound of owner's footsteps, car, bicycle, skate, whatever. Heck a dog outside in the garden can hear his owner in the house making themselves ready to take the dog for a walk (you can clearly see how they tune their ears and, if the sound matches, they run, frantically wagging the tail, to where they expect the owner to appear). Dogs also have a pretty accurate sense of time. But so do people -- get rid of all watches and I assure you that within a short period of time you will be able to guess current time with the accuracy of +/- 15 minutes. Thus, I have a serious problem with Sheldrake's "experiments".

As for Jung -- I didn't comment on your subsequent articles because my knowledge of his writings is not that deep. I talked about how you misinterpreted his archetypes and collective unconscious as outside forces (i.e. an independent blueprint directing evolution). Judging from your further pieces it may be that Jung really believed it to be the case. To which I can only say that he was wrong. Then again, as you also noticed Jung's work is so ambiguous at times that it's hard to interpret what he actually intended to say or imply.

When it comes to synchronicities, I completely ignore the man. Not only I can freely induce the basic ones (famous 11:11 or other combinations, a certain theme appearing in unconnected places, etc.), but the truly inexplicable ones (such as e.g. simultaneous occurrence of a thought, a sudden crackling noise somewhere in the room, and almost instantaneous sneeze of a person nearby), also known as "omens", only confirm to me that we are inextricably physically linked with the rest of the world. Now, QM tells us that this universe is in constant oscillation with various frequencies interacting, creating all sorts of interferences and diffractions. So yeah, such “omen” clearly says “pay attention, something’s converging in the universe”. Case closed.

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