There is scientific evidence that the heart can remember things that a person has a passion for. (I guess that is what you would call it) Sometimes when a person recieves a heart transplant the person suddenly will develop a taste for example: K-State, Mexican food, certain kind of dancing, ect... So I am wondering how the ancients knew this, did they do heart transplants? Any ideas?
2007-06-11 15:57:24 · 18 answers · asked by Peggy Pirate 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
umm.... I saw it on the discovery channel a long time ago. I was at K-State when the person died in Ft. Riley, Kansas. So I remember when the person died. Surprised to see it on the discovery channel a couple of years later.
Looked up a couple of sites: Don't know anything about it but if you want to read here it is.....
http://www.med.unc.edu/wellness/main/links/cellular%20memory.htm
2007-06-11 16:13:38 · update #1
Bad site , like it doesn't work or site as in it is not reliable.
2007-06-11 16:21:01 · update #2
WHOA!!!
"There is scientific evidence that the heart can remember things..." ... CITE For *THAT* One, Please!
( Not your mere assertion - a respectable CITE! )
The ancients didn't know... Thus for similar reasons: Gods!
2007-06-11 15:59:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but depending on the era and location, people associated other organs with passion. (notably the spleen of all things).
However, when you become excited about something, the most noticeable physiological changes usually happen in the chest region (not counting the nether regions.) Now, they could attribute these feelings to that hippity hoppity thing in the middle, or the two big, lumpy bags on either side. Which venue would you have gone for???? Right!
2007-06-11 23:05:03 · answer #2 · answered by snoweagleltd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can view it like this:
Heart = Life
Life = Luv
Therefore...
Heart = Luv
But assuming:
Luv = Life
Life = Spirit
And believing -
Spirit = Who you are; What you like
Then it's pretty easy to think like all those ancients.
You basically piece a puzzle together using three-letter words.
In actuality they had just as much brain cells in proportion to their heads as we do, however they could have known more. A lot can be lost in a year, and a year can lose a lot by a fire.
But that info about the transplants...wow. Did not know that...very intriguing...
Yet doubtful?
Whatever the case, please cite the sourse.
2007-06-11 23:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by Save ze Fishies 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason ancient peoples associated the heart with passion is because one often feels something in their chest. Like, if you're sad, or in love, etc. you'll often get a feeling of some sort apparently inside your chest. If they knew the heart was in the chest and they felt emotions in their chest it was the obvious conclusion that the heart must be the center for emotion.
That's my reasoning for it, anyway.
And lolz @ the heart having memories.
2007-06-11 23:04:18 · answer #4 · answered by Diavola 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whats the fascination with modern people and head the ball.?
I still more or less only get the four humours.
People are heart.Its what people are.
Everything is just an extension of your heart.
If someone says"your God is dead" then that persons heart is dead to God,if someone says something hurtful its because their heart is hard.
God doesnt see peoples "get it",God judges people by their heart.
I heard recently that the middle 3 letters in heart spell ear.
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2007-06-11 23:05:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is the heart is a very reactive organ you get exited is speeds up. You can hear it, you can feel it working. You can also easily tell dead peoples hearts don't beat anymore. Your other organs, it is not so easy to tell they are doing anything.
I would think there were people injured badly enough they may have seen the heart. Maybe even a beating heart.
2007-06-11 23:05:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart in many cultures speaks figuratively of the inner man. I don't believe they intended this to be taken literally as the blood pump any more than we do today.
When we have certain feelings, they simply seem to emanate from certain parts of the body.
Actually the Greeks and the Hebrews also referred to the inner spiritual man by referring to the liver, the kidneys, the bowels, the stomach and the spleen as well.
We still use this terminology as well, like when we refer to a cutting remark that seems to hit us in our gut as a "low blow".
2007-06-11 23:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is NO scientific evidence that heart transplant patients get the memories of their donors. The heart was associated with passion because it would beat rapidly when excited.
2007-06-11 23:00:12 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People have always figured the heart was involved in human emotions and still do. It is the one thing that without it doing it's thing, you are instantly dead. Some people believe everything originates from the heart. Love, passion, crime, goodness......the whole smear. Does it? Pops
2007-06-11 23:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by Pops 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the effects of a heart transplant are biological and physiological whereas the ancients used the term as a eumphemism. Certain portions of our brains are really our "hearts"
2007-06-11 23:03:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you are passionate about somethig your heart beats faster. but interestingly enough the centre of passion was at varying times considered to be the bowels, spleen and the liver.
2007-06-11 23:08:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋