When I look at all the cellphones, the internet, the telephones, the satellites, etc, I notice that inter connectivity in our race is increasing and getting higher and higher. It reminds me of one other arena where inter connectivity changed the nature of things and created new out of the old.
In the natural world, life started with the single cells. Gradually these single cells gathered together in incoherent groups, because of the sources of food that were available and protection. First there was no connections, there was just a group and lump of cells, but through millenia of living close by, they started to connect, and later the neural system and all the other connecting tissue was generated and at last multiple cell organisms turned into one new organism with its own consciousness. Same thing is happening in our society, with the rapid rate of increasing instant connection between humans in densely populated areas of the human race, we are witnessing the beginning of a new super organism that one day might even have a consciousness of its own without us even noticing it. After all, we will all be but just single cells inside that body.
Do the cells in our body know at all about "us"? Do they know that there is a higher intelligence made out of their harmonious co-operation and living together? I doubt it.
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