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Yeah but so many people want to believe this idea. Consider all the history of people of "royal blood" as if that endeared them with the knowledge and skills of

Yeah but so many people want to believe this idea. Consider all the history of people of "royal blood" as if that endeared them with the knowledge and skills of ruling. There is a whole industry that plays to this desire of people to "know". From palmistry to genetic memory, they are all bonkers.

47282847 2y ago
I can not look into my genes so I know nothing about that, but what I can say with confidence is that trauma therapy continues to fundamentally change how I judge, act and react, and has deeply positive effects on all my relationships. I can totally see how that positively influences how my children will develop. That aspect of “passing on trauma“ is very real. I now stay calm and regulated in most stressful situations, and in the few cases where I overreact I know how to and I have the ability to (!) make up for it later and correct my mistakes. And use the trigger to further heal past pain.
- rahimnathwani 2y ago
  The article is about genetic inheritance, not about inheritance in general.
0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Definitely. People want to believe it so badly that they'll just throw all logic out the window. I can't find it with a cursory search, but I recall one case in which a person allegedly inherited a fear of drowning via "genetic memory" from her uncle who drowned shortly before she was born. It's essentially "psychic medium" bullshit with a veneer of pseudobiology. But hoo boy, does that ever play well. It's one thing to suggest that psychological or metabolic stress could affect the dynamics of DNA methylation in a way that crosses generational boundaries. It's quite another to identify those inherited dynamics as "memories".
- jraph 2y ago
  Why yes, this stuff jumps diagonally. That's called an epigenic memory cross-transfer. It also works backwards and if one of the being is dead, and affects you from your birth even if the event had not happened yet at the time. Retcon Epigenetics 101. :-)
Cthulhu_ 2y ago
It's easy to mistake upbringing with something inherited, or culture and behaviour with familial / race / appearance. I'm sure THAT part is partially inherited (same with the pattern recognition mentioned above).

47282847 2y ago

I can not look into my genes so I know nothing about that, but what I can say with confidence is that trauma therapy continues to fundamentally change how I judge, act and react, and has deeply positive effects on all my relationships. I can totally see how that positively influences how my children will develop. That aspect of “passing on trauma“ is very real. I now stay calm and regulated in most stressful situations, and in the few cases where I overreact I know how to and I have the ability to (!) make up for it later and correct my mistakes. And use the trigger to further heal past pain.

rahimnathwani 2y ago
The article is about genetic inheritance, not about inheritance in general.

0xcde4c3db 2y ago

Definitely. People want to believe it so badly that they'll just throw all logic out the window. I can't find it with a cursory search, but I recall one case in which a person allegedly inherited a fear of drowning via "genetic memory" from her uncle who drowned shortly before she was born. It's essentially "psychic medium" bullshit with a veneer of pseudobiology. But hoo boy, does that ever play well. It's one thing to suggest that psychological or metabolic stress could affect the dynamics of DNA methylation in a way that crosses generational boundaries. It's quite another to identify those inherited dynamics as "memories".

jraph 2y ago
Why yes, this stuff jumps diagonally. That's called an epigenic memory cross-transfer. It also works backwards and if one of the being is dead, and affects you from your birth even if the event had not happened yet at the time. Retcon Epigenetics 101. :-)

Cthulhu_ 2y ago

It's easy to mistake upbringing with something inherited, or culture and behaviour with familial / race / appearance. I'm sure THAT part is partially inherited (same with the pattern recognition mentioned above).