WE'RE JUST AT THE BEGINNING
*The Lives of a Cell* by Lewis Thomas
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"We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with
such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be
undergoing fusion . . . Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning
to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of
us. Maybe the thoughts we generate today and flick around from mind to
mind are the primitive precursors of more complicated, polymerized
structures that will come later, analogous to the prokaryotic cells that
drifted through shallow pools in the early days of biological evolution.
Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among
the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought,
huge interliving coral shoals of thought . . . The mechanism is there [in
the human brain], and there is no doubt that it is already capable of
functioning."