I think that DNA memory is A lot different than neural memory. DNA memory is about improving physical adaptability over long periods of time - over generations. Neural memory is anout navigating daily obstacles. Kind of like weather tells us what cloths to wear and climate tells us what to buy. DNA doesn't Remember The details of being a run away slave, but it will remember what physical adaptations were required to survive.

It is already proven in one sense!!! DNA

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Not familial memory in the sense of your Nan's dress ..

Trauma memory ... So if there was a really bad experience for you last generation that phobia or trauma can be passed through Sperm and becomes DNA and affects your neural structure in the next generation !!

So it is very real ! Just not in a pictorial sense

Interesting question, and some of the comments have been enlightening. I personally highly doubt the possibility of reincarnation,while DNA memory seems at least plausible. Isn't our understanding of DNA still in it's infancy?

I respectfully disagree with you.

1. tests of a fairly large population of subjects indicated fear reactions to either spiders, or snakes, rarely, but occasionally both. Ancestry DNA tests of the same population of test subjects showed 2 distinct groups which correlated with the "fear" results.
2. Continuing research indicates DNA is much more complex than previously thought, with a third type of structure recently identified. So, we've got RNA, DNA, and now a third helix structure containing information.

Interesting question. Humans apparently do have some form of genetic memory... a fear of snakes, and/or spiders is apparently, part of our collective memory. So, why not other memories of a more specific nature?

There is such a thing as "genetic memory", it's what in part explains for lack of a better word aptitude in various living things.
Furthermore it's mind blowing to consider that before we were ever born, our mothers were born with the genetic code for each one of us, as women only produce a certain number of eggs. The eggs we were born with, so in a sense born before we existed.

With purpose bred animals for example, breeding pairs are often chosen for specific traits, some of them based on personality types....which in turn can and are often clearly passed on.
It's why you don't buy a shitzu to do police work, or a mini donkey for a draft horse.

I stopped reading after I saw reincarnation

Wow! What an excellent topic. Ive always had an idea of reincarnation but had no proof, if there actually is any. DNA memories sounds like something that actually be founded with scientific methods. The brain is researchable and remarkable. How does that compare with spiritual research and physical evidence? AND, it much more believable because of the stories passed down by our ancestors.

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Very interesting theory, I’m going look into DNA memory. Thanks for the post.

Or does it even matter?

Interesting,how instinct is transferred in animals.I heard they are thinking about using dna to store computer memory,like Star Treks ship has a living computer.However having experinced out of body experince's before.I get chills seeing my home of long ago,seeing mount kilaminjaro

I read that too! I think there is more that we don't know than what we do know about most things.

Ah, the mighty conderal DNA. That one is the strongest kind. Maybe it could still be reintarnation.

More inclined to believe DNA memory. While Buddhism has made contributions to my life I won't believe in reincarnation until it happens to me.

I believe I am a composite of my parents DNA, with new experiences added by me. So on my Father side there may be descendant of african slave and even african royalty mixed with the criollos forged of Spanish settlers and caribe indians, in my mother side the spanish conquistadors that found the native taino female of the island fresh and pleasant. My mother has hazel eyes and natural curls, her hell raising fire still on her 90's. My natural curls soft and my lack of beard like many mulato in my father side and his cool, benevolant demeanor, his dignity and honor passed to me along with his cold brown eyes. I will live all my life enamored of women, that I do respect so much. As a youth only liked one type of girl only. Native of my island looking... long, soft, straight hair, dark skin. Took me time to realize there is Beauty in every race, mixed or pure. One day I wrote a song in spanish about "the cross or the sword", the only two alternatives the tainos and caribes had from the spanish, when I did the video added a "soneo" section to include the african slave experience. And writing it was like if I knew what happened without research of any kind. Only research done was for the images on the video, not the lyrics. We are a lot more than what we see in a mirror or a selfie, but to find you it takes a lifetime, I am still discovering me and at times I believe I am this inmortal soul that was born to create and be creative and just because I don't remember doesnt means I am not. Death may give me an answer or surprise the hell out of me. And this Dude will Abide.

There is no structure to retain “memory” as we understand it in DNA itself, any more than you can live in the blue prints for a house. That being said... there is a lot we do not understand about how memories are stored and retrieved in the first place. I don’t tend to see any reason or evidence to think reincarnation is a thing. Beyond anecdotal accounts, there is no evidence. Evidence would be something like locating a specific object or place one has never visited or otherwise experienced and being able to locate hidden objects or details which would only be evident to someone who had physically been there in the past.
Now, this does not discount the fact that we are all linearly derived from the first organism to arise on earth. There is a lot of dispute over how much of our behavior is “hardwired” from our genome and how much is due to the influence of environment. So at the very least, we know some behaviors are passsed on. To my knowledge however, “experience” is not imprinted in anyway upon the genetic material. Now, I do have some outlandish notions myself... briefly, all of life itself, at least life arising on earth is an organism unto itself (speculation). If something like this is the case, there may be more avenues of communication than the ones we ostensibly identify... but as I said, that’s just a fringe idea that I’m attracted to at the moment, not something I can concretely prove.

How could DNA possibly hold new information from individuals? What mechanism would cause your DNA to change? Why hasn’t DNA been observed changing except in mutations or cancer?

It is not reincarnation so much as evolution. The basis of evolution is that creatures evolve to best survive in their environment. For much of the animal world, certain characteristics evolve to best low them to fit into their environment; a camel evolved to go long periods without water making it able to survive the desert. A chameleon whose skin can change color became better at camouflage and evolved better. As humans, we have adopted many forms and sizes, skin colors and abilities. So your DNA would hold maybe not your memory of what happened to your ancestors, but the evolutionary qualities that allowed them to reproduce and thrive. So, to use the slave example, being able to run and evade captors, to have the spirit to be free, would be traits that could be passed on to future generations through DNA, and hearing history might trigger those same emotions, making it seem like a memory when it is just a reaction.

I know there has been science behind DNA memory to date, but am thinking that reincarnation memory would be different due to the fact that they are not always relatives.

Interesting