Or chicken nuggets. The idea that body cells contain clues to our personalities, tastes and histories, along with our genetic data codes, is subdividing everywhere in our culture. It's so busy that it doesn't really connect with the energy we know to be ancient, spiritual and intuitive. The heart has a coded, subtle knowledge connecting us to everything and everyone around us. That aggregate knowledge is our spirit and soul.
Science says no.
Most scientists believe psychological experience is stored in the brain. Schroeder and social workers who work with transplant patients say that medication can alter tastes for food and that feelings of relief and hope at having another chance for life explain why some patients change habits and interests. And the heart is a sentient, thinking, feeling, communicating organ. The idea drives her new fiction, Pulse. Fifty years ago, people laughed at the idea of genetic codes in saliva.