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Re:Out of Your Head by kulahan on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @05:50AM (#41365871)
It really isn’t “wrong and dangerous” - hippies talking about greater consciousnesses have been a thing for a looooong time, and surely you could accept in SOME manner the argument that mankind is a kind of organism as well. That’s basically what sociology is studying!
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Re:Out of Your Head by CuriouslyC on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:31AM (#41367955)
The really interesting philosophical question is what causes the aggregation of consciousness. It isn't related to distance or connection, rather it seems to be the result of physical "coupling" through shared history. It's almost like consciousness represents the shared state of a given part of the universe.
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