Collective Memory

It's fun to entertain the thought... I would be inclined to say "no," there isn't such thing as collective memory. My only basis for the decision (aside from the obvious lack of evidence) is that I believe if such a thing exists, it would be universal, all-encompassing, and not exclusive to humans. Unless you're one of those crazies who don't believe animals have souls...

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Originally Posted by Gohron

The brain supposedly produces chemicals that are hallucinogenic in nature as you sleep. Some scientists believe that this is what causes you to dream. I guess when you are waking up, some of these chemicals are still active and cause similar effects that something like LSD or shrooms would produce.

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It's called DMT. Your brain releases it while you sleep which causes you to dream. It's released in the highest doses when you're born and when you die. I believe it exists in just about every organic organism. It's supposed to be a hell of an experience too, very short and intense. My neighbors do it often, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

I don't believe animals have souls.
I'm also pretty sure people are animals, although some seem more like vegetables.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Your argument does not count for people dreaming things in advance in regards to things they have no preexisting knowledge of. How someone could dream of a road, every twist and turn, and every house on it without having ever been on the road before.

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Next time you find yourself driving down a road you precognitively dreamed of, navigate it with your eyes closed.

You can't do this because you do not in fact remember the road to that level of accuracy, you just think you do. Memory is a hazy mist prone to disappearing and morphing with time. Perhaps you dreamed of a similar road and through a hiccup like deja vu you linked the two, or maybe it was similar enough for it to fit in as a real recollection. Its a combination coincidence and brain malfunction.

I've experienced what you're talking about many times (today in fact), and i know how real it feels, but when your brain fucks up it always feels real. Take a pill and you may feel true love and empathy for your fellow man, but its still just a chemical reacting with part of your brain.

If you genuinely and wholeheartedly believe that you're having precognitive dreams, start a dream journal and update it every time you wake up. Any patterns or incidents of genuine precognition will emerge.

imo

The collective memory you're talking about is likely due to people with similar problems seeking similar solutions. People are cold in Africa, they make fire. People are cold in Papua New Guinea, they make fire.

Dreams aren't precognitive, that's dumb.

Human beings are animals. Saying that we have souls while no other creatures do is self-aggrandizing bullshit. After first defining what a soul actually may even be, at least make up some lower bound of sentience required. I think you'd pretty much have to include some primates in that category. Fuck dolphins, though.

agreed, Dolphins are lame

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Fuck dolphins

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Keep your weirdo fetishes to yourself pls.

So, WoW's new porpoise class has turned simple pedophiles on to bestiality, now?

Dolphins are not porpoises, they are mammals. May I again reiterate...