Ugh…still reading despite my inner protests. The proofreading, if any, is terrible. But there are enough interesting ways of seeing other topics I’m exploring independently to keep me engaged.

Most salient, he notices this idea of “thought clouds” (my term) as a phenomenon of organizational psychology. It’s basically the image of how a belief system/plausibility structure of an institution or social group seems to influence an individual’s ability to think independently. When we move through a group we pick up on these thought clouds through environmental affordances and behavioral cues and adjust our thinking and role to fit in. You do it. I do it. It’s just something we do.

The image is consistent with the theory of the conscious electromagnetic information field; consciousness arises through the combined wave interference of independently firing neural synapses. It’s proven that music will synchronize individual brainwaves in an audience, so the idea that thoughts might synchronize in a similar way isn’t out of left field. Exhibit A: human civilizations.

I think the challenge for individuals is discovering how to develop a personal belief system/plausibility structure (through solitude?) and then find others with resonant fields.

This is of course just me mumbo-jumbling on a book server that very few people read.