@Jayne
The idea of a collective consciousness is that the group is working towards a common goal that requires information and processing power possessed by none of its members.
Contrarily all it’s members can access it, but not from an imagination of individual entities existing separate which negates it’s basis.
To clarify:
From Wikipedia:
Collective unconscious sometimes known as collective subconscious, is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung. It is a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humanity, that is the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality.
Now there are universal understandings and developments that are archetypes from the unconconscious mind that defy description. Take one example art and we can extrapolate from it:
Universally, almost without exception when children can draw they depict a sun as a round object with points coming out of it although it’s clear that there are no points that come out of the sun. Furthermore as rays of light emitted from the sun may represent points, this requires abstract reasoning beyond their years. Another example is the lollipop tree with the hole in it for the squirrel. Now again they depict this without instruction and often though their trees have no similarities to such nor have they had contact with a squirrel.
Language is another area that defies description. The rapid advancement in learning has no precedent and a child can acquire vocabulary that is beyond their exposure. The physiology of the body and the structure of the inherent components are not what makes up mind nor is it the deciding factor. Mind is far beyond the inherent components of a localized field of “matter”.
@Trustinglife
We constantly communicate the unconscious. For example, the look across the room at her or him with intent says more than “Hi”. It can be, “I want you and I find you terribly alluring”, or “I can’t believe you’re cheating on me”,“You look good enough to eat.” etc. Now the viewer can read something entirely different, “He’s looking at me like he wants to eat me, rape me or he’s glaring like he hates me”. or “Look that guy’s being friendly and smiling at me”. The unconscious mind is constantly at work without or awareness. And as far as the LOLs. These can communicate far beyond a simple tag. They can say “I like you”, “I’m shy” or “Please like me”, and of course “I’m laughing out loud”. And in response I can feel, “Protect this shy one”, “I also am laughing out loud”, “Don’t manipulate me to feel pity”, etc.
So the unconscious is constantly at work and there certainly seems to be a super unconscious at work with the quantum leaps in advancement that we experience practically overnight. This massive experiment in projection, transferrence and communication in a purely imagined mental space being perhaps the best example. It’s not the code across the page that is the wonder but the place we call the internet itself as having imagined existence.