"Mind over Matter" proven at Princeton

[greenian]

independent developement IS a more plausible idea, but it doesn't explain some of the convergence in culture that we see occur. Ideas proliferate, I once read that four other men in four other countries were doing Ben Franklins kite experiment about the same time he was. Morphic resonance, holographic thought modelling, it doesn't matter what you want to call it. It's just interconnection. Everything does affect everything else. And when something new comes on the scene anywhere its presence is felt everywhere.

I don't undertstand when morality came into it, I think you were making a point about similar ideas recurring throughout history. And yes, in the "morphic resonance" model, that shouldn't happen. But morphic resonance implies a groove, worn through our minds, establishing tracks simply through usefulness and repitition. It's a general statement, and doesn't apply to all people. But look way back at history. First civilization, Sumeria. but not for long. they were established as a collection of city-states, then suddenly there's Akkadia to the north, Egypt to the west, Babylonia farther north. They didn't have time for independent minds spread over that area to just up and decide to start an agricultural lifetsyle. It just happened that way. A new process came into the collective unconscience and it began manifesting itself in other places almost immediately.