Timeline for How could ghosts be explained without an afterlife?
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 18:24 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | If by not stored genetically you mean that memories are not genetically inheritable, then I agree. If however you are ruling out all involvment of nucleaic acids in the task of memory storage, I would have to disagree. The OP requested a no-afterlife solution, which to me rules out our being anything more than our grey matter. Therefore any memories we have, must be stored somewhere in that grey matter, where a virus could get at them. As world builders we often have to fictionally answer questions which science leave open. Otherwise we can't do our jobs. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 5:05 | comment | added | Matthew Najmon | Memories are not stored genetically. There's an awful lot that's not yet known/understood about how human-brain memory storage actually works, but enough of it that is known to pretty solidly rule that one out. However, maybe if the virus has some mechanism to read however the brain does store them, and translate that to encode it within its own genetics... | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 4:05 | comment | added | Sam Washburn | This is pretty clever. People are always dismissing the paranormal as mental issues: hallucinations, paranoia. But what if the new mental states are directed. Nice one. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 19:16 | history | answered | Henry Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |