Over at MindingthePlanet.net, Nova noted some interesting insights on the evolution of the web and mankind itself:  What’s After the Real Time Web? Read Part 1 of this piece here.

The inter-connection of people/information/technology on the web, is hardwiring everything and everyone together.  There are more aspects of Nova’s ‘Collective Intelligence’ that will evolve in mankind, one is our effect on the Collective Consciousness.

Durkheim’s collective consciousness speaks of a ‘unifying force’ the shared by society.  The hardwiring of the planet will automatically begin this sharing of attitudes and beliefs.  Even if it is just exposing others to new ideas.  These will be added into the mix, and included in thought processes and decision making.

As this consciousness grows in size and complexity, the memes will change and value systems will evolve.  Before we know it, people will be thinking differently and behaving differently.

Not only will we change the collective consciousness, we will have greater access to it.

Once the mind is freed up from the ‘stupid mundane things’ that it no longer needs to worry about because it is being handled by a computer, other less used processes and senses will develop.  Perhaps people will begin to develop their access to Jung’s Collective Unconsciousness and other subtle fields.  This is the expansion of our awareness, the soft-wiring of mankind, to the cosmic Wi-Fi.

Western science has yet to validate these claims of many Eastern wisdom traditions, but didn’t Astronomy claim to be a closed science at one point?  New discoveries are always being made.   So we’ll see what happens.

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