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Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by scarecrowbob on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:54PM (#17383397)
This is kind of a neat idea.

Especially, it feels like fertile ground for speculative fiction about what would happen if it were collectivizable...

Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by mmjaa on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:23AM (#17385754)
Speculative fiction .. or religion? Because if there were some way we could access the sum total of all human experience, wouldn't that method be as close to "God" as it was ever described?

One wonders if this is, indeed, the concept being described, over and over again in every religion (and science) ever ..

Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by jcims on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:04PM (#17383702)
Indeed!! We’re closer than we have ever been, and that trend is likely to continue.
Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by walterbell on Sunday June 24, 2018 @06:29AM (#17385927)
Thanks for posting this concept.

To what extent does mass+social media create collective subgroups of consciousness? What's the decay curve of a subgroup and how do subgroups compete, fork, merge or decay?

How do persistent records (oral memories, written records, national holidays, memorials, digital footprints, media archives, censorship) feed back into subgroups of collective consciousness?

How can collective consciousness be measured, monetized, directed, encouraged, suppressed, or otherwise manipulated for specific purposes, within a specific bounded timeframe of a single hour or day?

How do time zones affect the "nature/flavor" of consciousness in each hour, as populations sleep and wake and work and rest and ...?

Re:Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrific... by Ritsuko_akagi on Sunday June 24, 2018 @06:38AM (#17385949)
human instrumentality project