“”The plan is to recreate the genome (the complete set of genes or genetic material of a cell or organism) of the woolly mammoth from preserved mammoth remains. This will be achieved through DNA editing, synthesis technologies, and AI, which will “help us with all the computational analysis of ancient genomes, assembly, comparative genomics, and recommendation systems on what types of tools to use.” These recreated genetic packages will then be implanted into the harvested egg of an Asian elephant””
What could POSSIBLY go wrong? /ssssssss
And, what if some of the science fiction theories come true? Imagine if genetic memory and a collective unconsciousness is real? If the mammoths remember all the humans who hunted them long ago, what do you think they will do today? Forgive and forget......what about those loooong memories?
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I have heard of one experiment that might indicate genetic memory. Little 2 year olds were shown a fuzzy stuffed animal. When they reached for it they received a mild shock. It took 23 reachings and shocks before they stopped doing that. They were also shown a snake, but it only took 3 shocks to extinguish reaching behavior. If you were an ape or monkey ancestor, either you stopped reaching or you ended up dead. Or else you responded quickly when mama indicated NO to reaching. So I would not be surprised if there are genes left in our genome for snake avoidance.
Duke University has done research on ESP and telepathy. One type of experiment showed one subject an object who then tried to think the object to someone in a different room. These objects were shown at one minute intervals. Not much success with this methodology. Based on some personal experiences, I think experiments causing fear or alarm (particularly using creatures) in one person, with the other person distant to receive impressions would work better. Also with much longer intervals than a minute. Here are three of my experiences.
Two were with my son when he was between 2 and 3 years old. The first happened when my babysitter said she could no longer babysit after the end of the week. As son and I walked home, I was very upset and thinking “I must phone my husband and talk about this.” We walked into the house, my son walked to the phone, handed it to me and said, “Here, mommy.” THe second happened a few months later. Our kitchen and laundry were in the basement and I kept a carton there with toys for him to play with. One evening as I walked down stairs to do laundry, I saw a large waterbug (roach) run up the side of the box, perch on the cut out handle, and disappear into the carton. The next day as son and I were walking down the stairs, hand in hand, I thought, “Oh, I must empty the box and make sure the roach is not there.” He stopped and said “woach”, then looked up at me with a puzzled look. I asked, “Did you see a roach?” He nodded “Yes”. I asked him to go touch the place where he saw the roach. He walked to the carton and put his finger on the bottom of the hand hold hole where I had seen it the night before and had looked as we walked down the stairs. It had NOT been there that morning. I believe his puzzled look was because he got a memory flash from me and could not see an actual roach that morning. But he touched exactly the spot where I had felt strong alarm the night before and mild alarm as we walked down the stairs with the memory and need to make the box safe for him.
A third experience was with my husband. He had gone to visit my girlfriend’s brother for language practice. It was a 20 minute walk to their home. I was cooking and called her to find out when he would be home for dinner. She said he left 10 minutes earlier, just then a centipede scurried across my rug. I yelped, jumped up, and stomped on it. I sat to continue talking to my friend, but it started wiggling again, and I stomped some more. I ended the call, and cleaned up and disposed of the carcass. After ten minutes, my husband arrived. I was in the kitchen but called out, “Guess what I saw today?” He said, “A centipede.” I was shocked, and after a moment of thought asked, “Did anything interesting happen while you were walking home?” He said, “I was halfway home and had a strong feeling something was wrong. I stopped and looked around but everything seemed normal, so I walked to the corner, but then had that feeling again. I looked around but still saw nothing strange, so walked home.” We had never seen a centipede in that apartment. Roaches and mice, but no centipedes. So anyway, I do believe telepathy exists in unusual circumstances. I am not worried about human hating mammoth memories, although mistreating them would probably be a bad idea. If a toddler will avoid a snake with 3 mild shocks, how long would it take for abuse to create a raging mammoth.
As to mammoth ivory, yes, craftspeople/jewelers do use it as a substitute for illegal modern ivory, or else for its antique aspects or darker color or stain patterns.