Does Nature Have A Hidden Memory? - Rupert Sheldrake - #379

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Rupert Sheldrake. He's a biologist and an author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. Morphic resonance is the idea of a mysterious telepathy type connection between organisms and a collective memory within species. Rupert has spent 30 years investigating and researching this phenomenon, much to the annoyance of the scientific community. Today, expect to learn why it is that rats who are taught to escape from a maze have children who are able to escape it more quickly, and why rats in other areas of the world learn to escape more quickly as well, why dogs are able to predict when their owner is coming home 15 minutes before they arrive at the house, how blue tits drowning in milk can be explained by morphic resonance, and much more. To be honest, I have no idea what's going on with this. It feels so unlikely that all of these experiments could be coincidences, and there doesn't seem to be a way that they could be explained using traditional scientific methods. So has Rupert stumbled upon something that no other scientists apart from small other fields that follow in his footsteps have actually worked out? I don't know, but it's pretty interesting stuff. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Surfshark VPN. Protect your browsing online and get access to the entire world's Netflix library for less than the price of a cup of coffee per month. If you don't have a VPN, what are you doing with your life? You're already paying for your Netflix subscription. Just pay an extra £1.59 or like $2 a month and you can access everything that the world has to offer. America's Netflix has more movies and series than we do. And if you're in America, you can check out what we've got here in the UK or perhaps some French Netflix. They might have something good in French and it'll secure your browsing. It means that hackers and phishing websites can't try and split test you on prices for products that you're already buying or steal your data. Your internet service providers even allowed to actually aggregate where you've been on the internet and then sell it to companies that can target you with ads. Using a VPN stops all this from happening. It takes 30 seconds to download and get set up. It's a couple of clicks of a button. Don't need any super secret coding knowledge to be able to do it. And you can have it across unlimited devices. Your laptop, your iPad, your phone, even on your TV. So you can integrate that Netflix subscription across the world directly into your television. Also, you get 83% off three months free and a 30 day money back guarantee by going to surfshark.deals.mw. That's surfshark.deals.mw. You can go and try it for 29 days. If you do not like it, they will give you your money back with no commitment. Surfshark.deals.mw. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. You are not eating enough fruit and vegetables and you know it and this is going to help. Athletic Greens has just released their brand new AG1 superfood blend. One tasty scoop of AG1 contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food sourced ingredients, including a multivitamin, multi-mineral, pre and probiotic, green superfood blend and more in one convenient daily serving. They all work together to fill the nutritional gaps in your diet. It supports with energy and focus, aids with gut health and digestion and supports a healthy immune system. You've probably heard Dr. Andrew Huberman or Joe Rogan or Lex Friedman or Tim Ferriss talking about this product and there is a reason that we've all come upon the same Greens drink. It is the best quality that we've ever found. It's lifestyle friendly whether you eat keto, paleo, vegan, dairy-free or gluten-free and it contains less than one gram of sugar. You can get a year's free supply of vitamin D, five free travel packs, free pots, shakers and more if you go to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom.
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Rupert Sheldrake, welcome to the show.

**Rupert Sheldrake** (4:34)
Good to be with you.

**Chris Williamson** (4:35)
How do you describe what you do for work?

**Rupert Sheldrake** (4:39)
I'm a biologist, and I do scientific research. I write about it in books and in papers, in peer-reviewed journals. I do experiments, I make observations, I go to scientific meetings. So that's probably my main day job.