Let’s investigate one life form we seldom think about – mass mind entities (MMEs). For example, as the “collective mind” of human organizations like religious groups, schools, corporations, governments, mobs, etc. – and yet, the phenomenon seems to exist at all levels of life from single cell amoebas to human beings.
Ants, bees, other social creatures demonstrate a “hive mind” – which is a type of MME. I wonder if there are more MMEs than one might account for on this earth.
MME example: I live in an environment that provides four seasons every year. ALL the creatures and plants in this environment collectively sustain and adapt to that environment, creating a complex two-way interaction in which life and environment are inexplicably entwined – they become an MME. Now, extend that example to include the multi-cell bodies of the creatures that live here, the earth as an MME… then to the solar system… and then the Milky Way galaxy… now beyond…with this as a base of probability, we might think that there is no reality to true individualism.
We can see the MMEs in nature; multiple life forms in a single form. Ex: the body is made up of parts that cooperate with one another, dividing and multiplying into cells and forms that are directed by a central mind or will, coming into physicality en mass. What happens when one MME interferes with another MME?
“What happens when MME interferes with another MME?”
Conflict? Assimilation? Annihilation? Adaptation of both into something new – MME2?
I agree that a change will take place and always on a mass scale. If we look back on history we learn that mass conflict creates mass annihilation , assimilation and change. A death of sorts takes place when change comes, like the death of old ideas and beliefs, they get scrutinized, modified or changed completely. A domino effect takes place regardless of who conquers and who submits. The sacrifices will be made either direction because systems are created and intended to operate in specific ways whether theological, psychological or physical.
No doubt – when MME conflicts with MME, they die. Yet, in death, birth often occurs. Not all MME conflicts result in genocide, for example. Most result in assimilation, modification, or enmeshing – MME (social) amalgamation.
For example, when the French invaded England in 1066 (William the Conqueror was English, but lived in France and thought of himself as and spoke French), few on either side actually perished in the conflict – most survived to become “Anglified French” or “Franco-Brits”. The old English Anglo-Saxon MME and French Bretagnic MME in Europe died over the following 100 years or so and today remnants of the conflict can be found in the various dialects spoken in Great Britain.
All systems change, even those that have operated for a millennium change, even if imperceptibly slow. Change is the one thing we can count on in this world. Death does tend to make way for new life. We all have expectations of new life even before it’s begun.