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Does anyone feel that my neural net argument is flawed - i.e. could this be a phenomenon that can be explained traditionally?
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I don't think that your heart neuron theory will do it. Intrinsic to the neural net theory of memory is that the neural net be tightly integrated with the whole brain network, not sitting out on the periphery connected by individual motor and sensory nerves. It is true that the heart has its own neural network, but this is a pretty small and simple network of motor neurons that creates the heart's built-in pacemaker. If somehow they carried some memory that memory would not be available to the brain -- the connection from heart to brain is much smaller than what is left connecting the two brain hemispheres when the Corpus Callosum is severed and that pretty thoroughly eliminates memory transfer between the two hemispheres.