Well I had no idea what 'morphic resonance' meant either, though I think it
entirely reasonable that "there's a large library of songs genetically
embedded in all blackbirds, and this song happened to be used in the UK and
here about the same time." Yet I would be very confident that the bird
supposedly heard in that film would not have been there at all but the sound
bite was edited in post production from some recording at some other time
and place. Almost every film that wants a raptor sound from any raptor in
the world or even just trying to insert a wild type sound, will insert the
same sound track of the call of the American red-tailed hawk and almost any
frog scene will insert the "rivet" call of the whatever frog it is that
people who do that kind of film work, think that everyone thinks is the call
of all frogs. That is just what is done..... It is easier for them to source
cliché sound bites of the internet than record what is going on in the real
world.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Sent: Saturday, 14 January, 2017 5:12 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: Blackbird songs: morphic resonance or genetic
library?
:-) Yes. Although "morphic resonance" stands for something unexplained. A
bit like "dark matter" in cosmology. Nobody yet knows what's going on.
DN
> On 14 Jan 2017, at 9:58 AM, David McDonald (personal)
<> wrote:
>
> I am pleased that you added the '- more likely -' sentence, David.
> We wouldn't like this authoritative list to promulgate scientific weeds
like 'morphic resonance'!
> David
>
> On 13/01/2017 12:33 PM, David Nicholls wrote:
>> For some reason I've been listening to blackbird songs since the 1950s.
Some song patterns last a long time, others seem to change with the latest
blackbird fashion.
>>
>> A few years ago I noticed a new pattern I had never heard before, which
(transliterated) sounds a bit like "I'm a chilli-pop birdie" :-)
>>
>> I was vaguely watching a re-run of the movie "The Queen" (Helen Mirren)
the other night, and a blackbird was singing in the background (purportedly
at Buckingham Palace, but doubtless some other stately home - towards the
end of the film, when the Queen and Tony Blair were walking in the palace
grounds). It used exactly the same song phrase.
>>
>> Since it's unlikely blackbirds have flown from Britain to Canberra in the
time since the movie was made (2006) it seems to be a case of Sheldrake's
morphic resonance. Either that, or - more likely - there's a large library
of songs genetically embedded in all blackbirds, and this song happened to
be used in the UK and here about the same time.
>>
>> Curious coincidence, either way.
>>
>> DN
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