“Everything is individual. Not only you as a turtle organism standing here but all the components cells of your body. Each one of them has some sort of a feeling of its own. And it is individual. You can look at a microscope at the right level of magnification and you can see that thing there with its own little life. And if you examine the stream of your blood you’ll find it full of all kinds of organisms that are having all sorts of conspiracies and games and plots and eating each other and doing these things that like we do. Only, we realize that we wouldn’t be healthy as a total organism unless there were all these wars and fights and plots and politics going on between the various cells in our blood. But from their point of view, you see, they feel a little bit put-out. Because they’re being organized. And we’re in the same situation because very slowly, the human beings on the surface of the planet are realizing themselves into a total planetary organism with an electronic nervous system. You see, in science fiction which was published round about the 1920s. It was always expected future human beings would have enormous heads because they would have very big brains and they would be very wise. It didn’t work that way. What happens is that the human race is building a brain outside its body. That is to say an interlocking electronic network of telephonic, television, radionic communications, which is rapidly being interlocked with computers, so that you will, within a few years, be able to plug your own brain into a computer. You will have a little gadget here, behind the hearing aid and that will be into the integrated with your brain in such a way that you can plug in right here. That will only be an intermediate stage, because just in the same way as when we thought that all communications by electricity had to go through wires and then we got rid of the wires and got radio and television. So in exactly the same way we will eventually get rid of telephones and radio and television and we’ll communicate by some entirely new method that is at present called E.S.P.. But that will mean that absolutely nobody has a private life anymore. Everybody will read automatically everybody else’s thoughts you won’t be able to defend you’ll have no defenses everybody else will see right through you. And some people will protest and say well this is terrible there’s no privacy anymore that means there’s no ‘me’. Well that’s what’s happening to your own selves in your own neurons and they objected at some time in the course of the evolution we’re getting our private life taken away we’re being organized into a body. And we’re doing the same thing. Only we got to try and see if we can be clever about it, and that is to do two things at once: To have this tremendous openness to each other whereby I don’t care if you read my thoughts and you don’t care if I read yours, but at the same time nevertheless each one of us retains a peculiar individuality, almost in the same way as nothing could be more unlike a stomach than a heart and nothing could be more unlike a kidney than pituitary gland. And nothing could be more unlike intestines than a rib cage. You see, there’s a lot of differentiation inside the body. Despite the fact that it is a complete organism functioning all together.”
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