{"id":583,"date":"2009-05-18T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/heart-intelligence.html"},"modified":"2009-05-18T00:06:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:06:33","slug":"heart-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/heart-intelligence.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Human Hearts Carry Memories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this series of videos on Heart Transplant recipients who retained memories from the late anonymous donors whose heart they carry.&nbsp; The series starts with more emotional &#8220;homecoming&#8221; type stories but soon moves into some hard science that points to the heart being a major point of memory retention,<i><b> <\/b><\/i>and also that<i><b> the heart is 5,000 times more electromagnetic than the brain.&nbsp;<\/b><\/i> As a result of this potency, the heart actually responds to stimuli before the brain has even finished processing it. Totally cosmic.<\/p>\n<p>Beware there are some shots of actual open heart surgery with really dramatic music:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sudmW97FZA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sudmW97FZA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><br \/><\/object><a style=\"left: 425px ! important; top: -344px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" class=\"yrupyzexdapkcnzsaqej visible ontop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sudmW97FZA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a style=\"left: 425px ! important; top: -344px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" class=\"bcwggvtdbuvhdhdwtced visible ontop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sudmW97FZA0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a style=\"left: 425px ! important; 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