Rupert Sheldrake has had a diverse career as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist. He developed a theory of Morphic Resonance and became interested in the study of telepathy and precognition as well as other anomalous phenomena.

“memory is inherent in nature” and that “natural systems … inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind.” Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for “telepathy-type interconnections between organisms.”

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His books and talks have been largely denounced by the mainstream scientific community as pseudoscience and damaging to the public appreciation of the scientific method.

In 2013 Rupert gave a TED talk challenging current scientific dogma and availability biases. A couple of months later the talk was de-platformed by TED as not representing a consensus scientific viewpoint.

This is the talk.