Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

To elaborate further about the shared dream concept, to deny oneself as Jesus talked about in the Bible, can be seen as surrendering one's individual will in order to get access to the shared will. Take a multicellular organism, like a lion for example. Each cell in the lion's body only has limited capability while the lion as a whole multicellular organism has much greater capacity. Or like in a human brain where each brain cell only has limited capacity while the brain as a whole has a much larger capacity.

Similarly, in an STO social memory complex, each individual's will is very limited in isolation. The shared will of the entire SMC on the other hand is very powerful. This means that one must "lose one's life in order to find one's life", meaning that the individual will has to be surrendered in order to get access to the shared will of the entire SMC working as a single whole.