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anciano

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3. Interesting question....

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sun Aug 3, 2025, 01:50 PM

Aug 2025

I believe that evolution has given us primal "instincts", but I'm not so sure about primal "memories".
Although, should there actually be such as thing as a universal collective unconscious, it would necessarily have to include primal memory.

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Do we have primal memories? [View all] Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 OP

Programmed Sensory Reception WarGamer Aug 2025 #1

I think so. Midnight Writer Aug 2025 #2

"Cats know how to hunt and groom themselves." TexLaProgressive Aug 2025 #7

My cat was lying on my lap at the time and I didn't want to type anything that may upset him. Midnight Writer Aug 2025 #8

My mistress is 25 miles away- I should be safe 😆 TexLaProgressive Aug 2025 #10

Yet you still looked over your shoulder before you typed that, didn't you? Midnight Writer Aug 2025 #11

She'll make me pay TexLaProgressive Aug 2025 #12

Interesting question.... anciano Aug 2025 #3

We all have primal instincts, Disaffected Aug 2025 #4

"a very strong snake musky odor" Elon may have been in your basement. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #5

Probably the same genetic memory which makes evolution operate. Frasier Balzov Aug 2025 #6

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