RE: PSYCHOLOGY: The Collective

From: J. Daugherty (daugh@home.msen.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 1996 - 06:12:20 MST


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From: David Musick

"I made the point that people's minds are linked, forming a larger mind,
because the signals we send each other through our communication are basically a way that clusters of neurons influence each other between brains. I believe that this process is not qualitatively different than clusters of neurons influencing each other within a single brain."

However, you fail to mention that minds link together based on sharing certain memes or ideas to form separate, competing social organisms or collectives. Obvious ones are "Catholics", "Moslems", etc. Of course, there are many such organism, many much more subtle, and they are overlapping, that is, share to various degress the same cells (individuals).

"Conspiracy theory is heurism for social-power organism theory."

  





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