--- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Morphogenetic Fields > > There is mounting evidence that as more and more people learn or do > something it becomes easier for others to learn or do it. In one > experiment, British biologist Rupert Sheldrake took three short, > similar Japanese rhymes -- one a meaningless jumble of disconnected > Japanese words, the second a newly-composed verse and the third a > traditional rhyme known by millions of Japanese. Neither Sheldrake > nor the English schoolchildren he got to memorize these verses knew > which was which, nor did they know any Japanese. The most easily- > learned rhyme turned out to be the one well-known to Japanese. This > and other experiments led Sheldrake to postulate that there is a > field of habitual patterns that links all people, which influences > and is influenced by the habits of all people. This field contains > (among other things) the pattern of that Japanese rhyme.
There's an alternative explanation, which is that "traditional" rhymes are likely to have *become* traditional because they're easy to learn in terms of the rhythmic and sound patterns of the words, independently of their meaning. For that matter, Sheldrake may (inadvertently or otherwise) have selected traditional rhymes that were particularly easy to learn in this regard. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
