05-10-2012, 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-10-2012, 04:20 PM by Steppingfeet.)
(05-01-2012, 10:50 PM)yossarian Wrote: Social memory complexes share all thoughts, have no privacy, and all "units" in the complex do the will of the complex. Unity100 once claimed it is impossible to disagree with the social memory complex when you are within it.
Isn't this identical to the borg?
The borg assimilates your biological and cultural material into its own structure, tears down the walls of individuality and creates a collective with a hive mind.
What role will personality and personal choice have in a social memory complex?
What will happen if your personal choice differs from the choice of the majority of the complex, or someone else in the complex, or are you even capable of making a choice that is different from the complex?
The statement "All is One" is Borg-like. Are social memory complexes compatible with individualism? Are they a kind of herd mind like the mind of a bunch of water buffalos for instance that moves as a herd and everyone is careful to follow the herd?
How does a social memory complex reconcile itself with individualism?
Regarding whether individuality is maintained within a social memory complex, Ra says:
16.50: That which fourth density is not: it is not of words, unless chosen. It is not of heavy chemical vehicles for body complex activities. It is not of disharmony within self. It is not of disharmony within peoples. It is not within limits of possibility to cause disharmony in any way.
Approximations of positive statements: it is a plane of a type of bipedal vehicle which is much denser and more full of life; it is a plane wherein one is aware of the thoughts of other-selves; it is a plane where one is aware of vibrations of other-selves; it is a plane of compassion and understanding of the sorrows of third density; it is a plane striving towards wisdom or light; it is a plane wherein individual differences are pronounced although automatically harmonized by group consensus.
My take on the question of the role of the individual, and whether the entity is an "individual" in the social memory complex is this:
The individual entity in a social memory complex is perhaps something akin to a musical note in a symphony.
The note is distinct and its own, but the note (as with all other notes) is simultaneously aware of the entire movement and overall melody or song. The individual musical note cannot but play its part and vibrate its frequency in harmony with the whole.
The individual note, like all notes, works together in perfect proportion and relationship to form a whole larger than the constituent parts. Being fully aware of the entire symphony, it cannot act otherwise; it cannot be out of sync with the musical score. It willingly, gladly, joyfully plays its part, while not surrendering the identity that makes it the distinct note that it is.
A possible clarifying analogy. My musical note in this discussion.

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