Monday, March 26, 2018

Collective Consciousness and Partial Consciousness

'Partial Consciousness' can be defined as the 'awareness that one is a member of some subset of a Collective'. Thus entailed in a Partial Collective is an antagonistic relation to members of the complement of one's subset.  Now, since a special case of a subset is that the membership of which is exactly one, the awareness that one is an 'individual' is a special case of a Partial Consciousness,  Conversely, since 'collective' can connote any plurality, the only human Collective Consciousness that is not, at the same time, a Partial Consciousness is Species Consciousness.

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