Communication is key, when it comes to the survival, and sustenance of any species.
Verbal communication and gesturing are only one part of the huge repertoire of communication mechanisms.
These communication methods work best if the sender and receiver, both are conscious of what they are transmitting, at least to a certain degree. But did you ever think that the communication-network itself could be conscious of the transmission?
This is what forms the basis of the concept of shared-consciousness. That we all have consciousness, and the society as a whole is conscious as well. This may not be not scientifically-tested or verified, but can be experienced if one wants to.
Did you ever think, how two scientists working in different parts of the world simultaneously derived the same solution to a problem they had been working on, when in fact, there could have been many more? We dismiss it as serendipity and move on with our lives, but did we ponder over what causes these 'fortunate-coincidences' in the first place?
It is often said that there are no coincidences; everything we experience was meant to be. But who shapes our reality?
Is it us, or is there a super-consciousness that is shaping our shared-consciousness?
Many times, we hear scientists, artists, writers, sculptors, painters, musicians, philosophers and prophets attributing their creations, their creativity to the divine or the supernatural.
Kekule, the famous scientist who proposed the chemical-structures for the benzene-ring famously attributed his ingenuity to a dream he saw, in which a snake was biting its own tail.
Now, scientifically, we may disagree with the significance of dreams, but we will have to agree that the structures that Kekule proposed for benzene solved a long standing problem.
It is about time that we started wondering about the origins of consciousness, rather than efficiency of communication.
