The Joe Rogan Experience

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Well, thank you very patience Rupert.

Rupert Chelderick, ladies and gentlemen.

I came to know of you through the trial logs that you did with Terrence McKenna, who I'm a huge

fan of and Ralph Abraham, and I thought there were some really

fascinating conversations and you know all of Terence's MP3s are very very thought

inspiring and made you really like look at things from a very different

and peculiar angle that he had.

He had a very unique way of looking at the world.

But I came to know of you from that and I came to know of your ideas

of morphic residents, which I found to be really fascinating. And if you don't mind, just

explain to folks at home listening what the concept of

morphic resonance is. It's the idea of memory and nature, the idea that the whole

universe has a kind of memory, the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.

Each individual in his species draws on a collective memory and contributes to it. It works on the basis of similarity.

Any pattern of activity that's similar to a later pattern of activity in a self-organizing system influences it across space and time.

So what it means in effect is that if you train rats to learn a new trick in Los Angeles, then rats in New York and Sydney in London

will learn the same thing quicker straight away.

There's actually evidence that this surprising effect happens.

If you crystallize a new chemical

that's never existed before, then after you've made it in one place it should

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