[Quix]

I don't think there's a demon lurking in every comic book. But demon possession is far from uncommon.

And in Shrillery's universe, is set to become much more common.

Perhaps you missed the thread on Marx's satanism. Surprisingly, my Party member in China knew about that background.

Given the detail and number of experiences given in the example of the little boy and the pilot, I still say, the data is vastly too extensive, even in coded, packed form.

Not only that, can you imagine how complicated

REFORMATTING AND PACKING umpteen terrabytes of data in a human brain would be every lifetime or whatever every generation?

If you add in a supposed collective unconscious, the challenge becomes geometrically more impossible. Even ET's crainiums would not be large enough, imho.

We are talking about every moment, visual, auditory, emotions, thoughts, touch, smells, tastes of every life involved. That is NOT a small amount of information . . . for even one life.

Though I'd love to see speculation about how much data that would be.

[MHGinTN]

Your notions of data storage assume a perspective on dimension time that may be flawed ... your brain receives data from past events, never a present event ... you expereience nothing in the present of the exact event you sense. Your consciousness thus might be characterized as a present phenomenon, further described as a plane receiving linear data from past events; a plane is limitless for impact points of a linear nature. (Just to offer a taste of something different, my friend.)

[HitmanLV]

Genuine demonic possession is very very very rare, and fairly uncommon. To say it is 'far from uncommon' isn't supported by much evidence at all.

As for Satanism, I am aware of it. I didn't read the thread you reference but I am aware of it. Still, genuine demonic possession is very rare.

The details that the boy has are not too entensivem actually they are mundane, repeditive information. The encoding is possible and the brain is an astonishingly complex.

Further, there will be deletion, distortion, generalization filters going on - repeditive information would not be recorded a billion times, only once, and encoded and extrapolated.

You misunderstand the concept of collective unconscious, also. Think of it as everyone connected at some subconsicous level, like networked computers. Anyone can access information in someone else's grey brain cells (like one PC can access info in another networked PC) and memories, for example. This would make it easier, not more difficult, as you think.

Collective unconscious makes it easier, not more difficult, to pull this off.

Everyone's life is recorded in high fidelity, 3-D, stereo sound by the brain, subject to deletion, distortion, and generalization filters. This info is then encoded, refined, and passed along in your DNA to the next generation.

I have no idea as to the complex programming necessary to pull this off, but I will say its more likely that the brain stores this info and passes it from generation to generation, than every case (or even a small number of cases) of memories of 'past lives' is an example of genuine demonic possession.