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Originally Posted by Catwoman
I would suggest there is a 'network' not unlike the one we are accessing right now that is available to anyone who chooses to login. Just that not many people know it is there and some people are still resisting it (just like the internet!) This network is the common thought process of mankind, hence change or innovation does not originate in one persons brain but as a result of picking up on a collective consciousness which you cannot access through will but through receptivity.
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This collective consciousness thing has always stuck in my craw. Is there no original thought, then? Or is it a repository of original thought from which we can receive information? If a guy in Tanzania thinks of a new way to pick his nose with a twig, has he just put something into the c.c. bank for the rest of us to draw from? Or did his idea come from the c.c. bank, and is it therefore unoriginal? Whose idea was it originally? Mine, since I just came up with it? Or did I steal it from him?
For that matter, what is the origin of the collective consciousness? We can't collectively decide to patch holes in the road at a city council meeting -- are you suggesting that somehow this fizzle of brain activity connects with like fizzles and creates a functional network?
Have you ever derided my belief in Christ? I don't remember. But if you have, I'm calling Maximum Bullshit (tm). I gotta make more tinfoil hats
