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The Body Electric
losopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin postulated the same thing, a
noosphere, or ocean of mind, arising from the biosphere like a spume.
Given a biological communications channel that can circle the whole
earth in an instant, possibly based on life's very mode of origin, it would
be a wonder if each creature had not retained a link with some such
aggregate mind. If so, the perineural DC system could lead us to the
great reservoir of image and dream variously called the collective uncon-
scious, intuition, the pool of archetypes, higher intelligences deific or
satanic, the Muse herself.