The Internet is the cosmic consciousness Carl Jung theorized and is an instance of "if it's conceived, it eventually becomes real."

LF is a composite consciousness. A person reads this or that post in one or another thread in no particular order; remembers some things, forgets others, and is vaguely influenced by yet others. Altogether, a person leaves off reading LF with an impression. That impression is the sum total effect LF's various posters have had on the reader. (The "LF Personality Effect"!)

Individuals are composite awarenesses. A person's state-of-being at any given moment is a composite of different awarenesses. Look below the surface of any feeling, and you'll find myriad other, serpentine feelings intertwining together, forming a moving shape we call this feeling, or that feeling, or another. Sometimes, these shapes come into being for specific reasons and, when the reasons for their being are gone, the shapes unravel themselves, let the things which make them up go to be recycled for other shapes, and cease to exist. At other times, the shapes remain. Sometimes, without harm. Sometimes, not.

Thoughts?

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