A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance Giovanni Rigano the James Tait Black Prize

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A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance Giovanni Rigano the James Tait Black PrizeWhy do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of