Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation by Rupert Sheldrake

Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Science/Biology
ISBN: 9781594773174
Amazon: 1594773173
Publisher: Park Street Press
Published: 2009-09-09T05:00:00+00:00

Amoebae feed by engulfing food particles, such as bacteria, by the process of phagocytosis: pseudopodia grow around the particle that is in contact with the surface of the cell; the membranes of the pseudopodia fuse together, and the particle is enclosed within the cell surrounded by a part of the cell membrane. Other vesicles containing digestive enzymes fuse with this phagocytotic vesicle and the food is digested. This type of morphogenesis is distinct from that of cellular locomotion and presumably takes place under the influence of a different morphogenetic field, the orientation of which depends on the contact of the potential food particle with the membrane. This particle in contact with the membrane can be regarded as the morphogenetic germ; the final form is the particle engulfed within the cell. The chreode of phagocytosis leading to this final form is given by morphic resonance from all similar acts of phagocytosis by similar amoebae in the past.

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