| A few days ago, I read an article written by Rupert | | | | similar problems. Those brain waves are formed by |
| Sheldrake and others, about a "Telephony Telepathy" | | | | massive (for our body masses anyway) electrical |
| experiment involving people communicating through | | | | currents traveling over thin conduits, which is bound |
| phones and e-mail. | | | | to produce a coaxial magnetic field around these |
| The experiment showed that some people could | | | | conduits. Magnetism, electricity and gravity are all |
| actually predict the identity of a phone caller or e-mail | | | | related forces according to the Unified Theory for |
| sender with greater accuracy than simple statistics | | | | Electricity, Magnetism, and Gravity, which offers a |
| would dictate. The study lacked a more controlled | | | | more complete model for the physics underlying the |
| environment to be considered scientific proof, but I | | | | "Hive Mind" hypothesis. |
| somehow share the scientist's belief that there is an | | | | Magnetic and gravimetric fields travel unimaginable |
| interconnectedness of all minds within a social | | | | distances through a mechanism that has eluded the |
| grouping. If anything, there is a higher probability that | | | | most brilliant scientific minds, and will demonstrably |
| people in the same social grouping spend more time | | | | reach people across the globe. I could even entertain |
| thinking about the same subjects than thinking about | | | | the idea of other kinds of unknown fields beyond |
| subjects that are not interesting to that group. | | | | these two, but would do so at the peril of a weaker |
| The shared interest on the same topics is part of the | | | | hypothesis. The effect on the people reached by |
| glue that holds a social grouping together, including | | | | these fields would largely depend on the magnitude |
| the ones at the workplace. That shared interest is | | | | of the field and the susceptibility of the receptor to |
| possibly a stronger bond in our diverse corporate | | | | the field. Newtonian physics show that the effect of |
| environment, because we are brought together | | | | the field diminishes significantly with distance (to the |
| around a shared goal and often lack the other | | | | tune of distance3) but do not account for the |
| demographic background that typically unites a social | | | | repeating effects of intermediary brains resonating |
| grouping outside of the work environment. | | | | and amplifying the waves along the way. |
| Without getting into the telepathic effects explored | | | | Another interesting thought about the Hive Mind |
| in Rupert's experiment, it comes as no surprise that | | | | comes from the effects of mass in the laws of |
| sometimes we find ourselves thinking about writing | | | | gravity. What is "mass" in the hive mind? The |
| an e-mail to someone and are suddenly interrupted | | | | strength of the transmitter, or the intensity of the |
| by that same person calling on the phone or internet | | | | thoughts around a certain subject, are certainly a |
| messaging. I am willing to go beyond the inference | | | | factor; but the resonating effects of the |
| that such phenomenon is the result of diligent | | | | re-transmitters (other people's brains) in the hive |
| statistics at work; offering a hypothesis that explains | | | | mind are bound to offset and surpass the strength |
| the (unverified) results observed by the British | | | | of the original thought. In other words, the "mass" |
| scientist and his team. | | | | parameter in the intensity and reach of a particular |
| I postulate the theory of the "Hive Mind", where | | | | line of thought is dictated by the number of people |
| individual or collective thought carries over great | | | | attuned to that line of thought. |
| distances, establishing a communication mechanism | | | | The tribulations of our daily lives and the strength of |
| with other people beyond the currently known | | | | our individual thoughts introduce a lot of background |
| media; an effect that will be completely explained by | | | | noise to the resonant waves of the Hive Mind; |
| (then) common physics years from now. | | | | creating a somewhat healthy obstacle to a Borg-like |
| Furthermore, I postulate that such magnetic field is | | | | conscience breeding out of the work place. The |
| also a component in the organizational realignment | | | | magnetic properties of corporate direction covered in |
| example introduced in my previous article about | | | | the article about corporate hysteresis also explain |
| corporate hysteresis. | | | | some of the impediments to a freer flow of waves |
| Our brains generate an elaborate wave pattern while | | | | in the hive mind. |
| working through any technical challenge; it is | | | | At any rate, the hypothesis of the Hive Mind is |
| somewhat expected that the average person | | | | worth a thought, or many. |
| activates the same regions of the brain while solving | | | | |