Centre for Contemplative Learning and Research
The content of the genetic memory is decided by the accumulated experience of life as it traverses its 3.4 billion years of history of evolution.
Life evolves with its genetic storehouse of accumulated experience being passed down to future generations. Genes themselves evolve by a biological process of mutation.
Genetic inheritance and mutation are responsible for the evolution from the primitive single-celled life forms of multicellular vegetative life, creaturely and animal life, mammals, and humans. Physical systems started to develop with the evolution of vegetative life. Cells are known as the building blocks of life.
| Genes store memory of heritable life experiences extending over billions of years. This inheritance explains how we know things that we are never taught. We are not conscious of the contents of this memory. |