Morphic Resonance by Rupert Sheldrake

The book proposes a controversial hypothesis that biological form, behaviour and memory are shaped by non-local formative fields that record and transmit the habits of systems across space and time, so that similar patterns are increasingly likely to recur because they resonate with the past. It argues that this principle could explain phenomena such as instinct, the rapid acquisition of skills, and certain experimental curiosities in development, crystallization and animal learning that standard mechanistic biology struggles to account for, and it explores implications for evolution, mind-matter relations and scientific methodology while acknowledging disputed evidence and provoking debate about how nature stores and transmits information.

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