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I suggest that discoveries, which still lie ahead of us in the broad field of research, have been stored in the human memory since time immemorial and are only waiting to be summoned up again. The experiments of David E. Bressler of the University of Los Angeles and Morton Edward Bittermans of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania are a step along this road. They implanted additional brain cells into fish. The fish enriched with the transplanted brain substance soon proved to be much more intelligent than their untreated fellows. Cleveland Hospital (USA) is conducting a series of experiments in which monkey's brains are put into dogs. Why were cannibals convinced that they took over the strength and intelligence of their dead enemies when they ate them? Why does a myth from remote antiquity claim the body only belongs to man temporarily, and that he must give it back to his 'master' at any time? Ought we to suspect that the human sacrifices practised for millennia were more than esoteric religious observances? Were they distorted memories of transplants, operations, cell regenerations, that were handed down for thousands of years in a terrifyingly garbled form? Let us examine another possibility. The 'thinking' computer will also be useful to man in the peaceful conquest of the universe. However startling its calculating achievements may seem today, the the ability to learn. The centre of this rock drawing from Toro Muerto (Peru) looks like an X-ray plate of the thorax. Its meaning is unknown. I suggest that unknown intelligences were able to do all these things in the dim mists of time. I suggest that the 'gods' left this knowledge behind when they visited earth. Why did the Mayan priests tear the beating hearts out of their prisoners’ breasts?