Dualtiy of Individual Consciousness

“How social network sites and computer / brain integration brought us group consciousness” published by NeoThink on 12/21/2012.

The following article was automatically substituted due to the space time continuum physics.

What is the duality of individual consciousness? How about Group consciousness? Or even better, integrated consciousness. Groups are integrated aren’t they?


Integrated is defined as:
Combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
What comes to mind here for many of us, (at least my best guess is that this is what most over 30 think) is that a group is not a group unless all member of the group come together physically. They will still refer to themselves as a group when not together, but group activities don’t usually take place unless all come together physically. When we started voice conferences 20 years ago or more we still did not see each other as a group but instead as a team or a workforce.
This seems to have changed very quickly.
I saw a TED video where the gentleman showed pictures of secret texting and discussed how it appeared that the relaying of the event has become more important than the event itself. Example: texting about a first kiss was more important than the kiss itself.
While communicating via texting once I found that with today’s youth if your text is too long it can confuse them. If you ask more than one question, the answer is "yes", or its "no" or they tell you where they are or some other relevant information. It’s hard to know which of the several questions they answered when it’s just one answer. Texting is not a letter and it’s not an email it's a phone call without the voice. It can take hours to do so with youth. If they don’t want to answer the question they stall. If you call them it goes to voicemail. They really don’t like talking on the phone. What would they say? I remember it being difficult to deal with silence when talking on the phone at a young age but of course there is no difficulty in silence when together or texting. Texting has become this constant connection to the group. It’s a phone call that lasts hours, day’s week’s months or years. If you stretch maybe you could even call it group consciousness.

Amazingly, while texting, we seem to be able to tell more intimate details. Our communication has no fluctuations in voice, so we can’t tell when the text indicates we are sad or happy unless we use emoticons. The art of communications has changed from an art to a more blunt and direct communication. With the youth, texting etiquette does not seem allow you to ignore the text because the conversation has never ended in their mind even if the last text was hours ago. Texting seems to be an ongoing never ending link to the person sending you the message. Work or being busy is no excuse to take a minute to respond. You can ignore the phone call but not the text, because the text conversation is not a now communication it is current communication.

Our intimate details turn into sexting. The sext message gets forwarded to our other groups and we get porn and even child porn.

Where does it go from here? It gets integrated with the internet. It gets integrated with other groups exponentially. It’s called social networking aka Facebook.

Now I am not saying that face book is bad but you should all be aware of what comes next. No maybe not for you but for your children.

Now you may have children in their late teens which may only shed 30% of their private lives but you pre-teens seem destined to shed 90% or more of their privacy. And how will this look. The below article does a great job of describing it.

So who will write the next article entitled: “How social network sites and computer / brain integration brought us group consciousness”


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