In article 816082862snz@railton.demon.co.uk I wrote:
But
if we, as individuals, are a part of the larger system in the way I described,
I suspect that we could neither contact nor observe it. How could a neuron
“contact” the brain?
A neuron with manipulative abilities could easily contact the brain.
A telekinetic neuron, for instance, could easily operate the typewriter
on my desk and leave me messages in the middle of the night like archie
and mehitabel do. So if we as human-neurons in the Earth-brain are
capable of determining what the inputs and outputs of the system are,
we could easily manipulate the environment to produce a different set
of inputs and thus make our presence known.
This, by the way, is part of why I consider the idea of human-neurons in
the Earth-brain to be ill-founded. Not all things-that-are-distributed
are information processing systems, and in fact I find it very difficult
to ascribe anything as being the inputs, outputs, “senses” or “speech” of
humanity or life-on-Earth taken on the grand scale.
Patrick