{"id":490,"date":"2011-12-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=490"},"modified":"2012-02-18T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:52:24","slug":"mass-mind-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/mass-mind-entities","title":{"rendered":"Mass Mind Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_496\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-496\" title=\"\u201cWhere two or more of you are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them.\u201d\" src=\"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/lynch-mob-200x132.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cWhere two or more of you are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them.\u201d\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/lynch-mob-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/lynch-mob-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/lynch-mob-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/lynch-mob.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s investigate one life form we seldom think about &#8211; mass mind entities (MMEs). For example,\u00a0 as the &#8220;collective mind&#8221; of human organizations like religious groups, schools, corporations, governments, mobs, etc. &#8211; and yet, the phenomenon seems to exist at all levels of life from single cell amoebas to human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Ants, bees, other social creatures demonstrate a &#8220;hive mind&#8221; &#8211; which is a type of MME. I wonder if there are more MMEs than one might account for on this earth.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; 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&#8230; then to the solar system&#8230; and then the Milky Way galaxy&#8230; now beyond&#8230;with this as a base of probability, we might think that there is no reality to true individualism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Mind Entities (MMEs) represent the &#8220;collective mind&#8221; of human organizations like religious groups, schools, corporations, governments, mobs, etc. &#8211; the phenomenon seems to exist at all levels of life from single cell amoebas to human beings. <a href=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/mass-mind-entities\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-thoughts-on-feeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}