The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
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The Effect of Emotions on the Heart
There's always these interesting anecdotal stories of people who have had heart transplants and seem to take on the characteristics of the person from where the heart came. We do thousands of heart transplants every year now. This is a very routine thing. One of the reasons that we've come to accept that the soul and the emotional center is likely not in the heart, but you know, can you imagine what ancient Egyptians or ancient Christians would have thought of the idea of transplanting it into another person?
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