Reply #10: Yeah, a far more likely scenario... [View All]

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...if there is a level of communal (sub)consciousness in ecosystems at all, would be for there to be more than one representing different local or vertical segments of the biosphere. They wouldn't necessarily agree or get along with each other.

If you make the jump to the assumption that such an organizational structure is necessarily global, you are then in the realm of conjecture where you face the prospect that it isn't limited to the globe and may entangle things elsewhere in the solar system, or galaxy for that matter.

It's just a round-about way to try to put his own words in the mouths of "the gods."