Evolution, Internet, Collective Consciousness

The significance of the Internet can be a function of a concept of History.  For example, if Evolutionism is true, then the fundamental subject of History is the Human Species, not distinctive individual humans, e. g. monarchs, and that subject has an arc that begins with its mutation from certain apes, and eventuates in the origin of a new species, rather than having no arc, or having one defined by certain Theologies.  So, rather than being an extrinsic happenstance, in a History of the Species, the emergence of the Internet can be interpreted as the beginning of an historical phase in which its members become more tightly conjoined.  It is thus in that context that the Internet can be characterized as inculcating a Collective Consciousness in each of its members, i. e. an awareness that one is a member of the Species.  Absent the historical premise, it is difficult to arrive at the Organicist interpretation of the Internet that prevents a lapse into an alienated version of Collective Consciousness, as has been previously discussed.