Consider the possibility that consciousness is an emergent property of certain neural activity, and at a much basic level, of certain electro-chemical pattern. Under this hypothesis, we can postulate that interactions amongst individual conscious entities may give rise to a society level consciousness. It is, in principle, not required for the individual entities to be "aware" of this social consciousness or vice-versa. When I think back about this, I think there are many people in the past who had very similar thoughts, but hopefully, as science progresses, we will have a much better grasp at this phenomenon.
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