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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