[6 June 2015 Part 2]
(46:26 mark)
Caller 1: I want to know what types of memory there really are.
iON: There’s short term, there’s long term, and autonomic memory.
Caller 1: I want to know about the autonomic memory because I’ve never heard about it.
iON: When you go to bed at night, do you wet yourself when you sleep?
Caller 1: Like now?
iON: Yes.
Caller 2: Do you piss in the bed?
Bob: No, you don’t! So, your autonomic memory holds that in.
iON: It reminds you to close your urethra until a full bladder will wake you up and remind you that your bladder is full, and you want to go empty it so you don’t pee. That’s a response but you have to remember that. Otherwise, when you woke up, you wouldn’t remember to go to the bathroom, but you don’t have to think about that. You just know that you’ve got to go, so you get up and go.
Caller 1: So, is there really any type of genetic memory?
iON: There is no genetic memory, no! How very Newtonian of you to notice!
