Thought Economics

[turtledude23]

While its currently impossible to externally quantify thoughts I think it would be very cool to measure what people think, how often, and with what intensity - on a large scale, and then we could see how much people's thoughts create the reality around them. For example: if someone anonymously shares a message through the internet which angers many people who have no direct way of interacting with the author, how would their collective dislike of the author cause him/her to feel reluctant to share a similar message in the future.

[zenmaster]

While its currently impossible to externally quantify thoughts I think it would be very cool to measure what people think, how often, and with what intensity - on a large scale, and then we could see how much people's thoughts create the reality around them. For example: if someone anonymously shares a message through the internet which angers many people who have no direct way of interacting with the author, how would their collective dislike of the author cause him/her to feel reluctant to share a similar message in the future.

As they say, it's not quantity but quality, otherwise anyone could be an effective healer for example. Most of our decisions are based on unconscious motivations, as we are mostly unable (capable, but unable) of using our free will to an extent that would subsume the collective mind. The thoughts we (the collective) create provide the opportunity for that author to make an unconscious decision in a particular direction, if that author resonates with the thought flow - probably at an intuitive level.

[Odinn]

While its currently impossible to externally quantify thoughts I think it would be very cool to measure what people think, how often, and with what intensity - on a large scale, and then we could see how much people's thoughts create the reality around them. For example: if someone anonymously shares a message through the internet which angers many people who have no direct way of interacting with the author, how would their collective dislike of the author cause him/her to feel reluctant to share a similar message in the future.

Yesterday Gmail underwent a crash of about 15 miniiutes or so, but part of the users (probably hundred of thousands or millions, all around the world) quickly reacted in twitter talking/complainning about it.


I remember I thought something along that line you comment on - "If all these people would have reacted to this situation visualizing Gmail's team fixing the problem (instead of tweeting a "What hapenned?"), the service would have been down less than those 15 minutes".