At the end you also really give away why the fight against the DRM and IPR is the way it is, by requesting not to steal your words.

every minute i’ve spent reading your blog was worth it

thank you

“Imagine having a computer system that keeps track of every event, thought, image, or desire that had ever transpired in the earth. Imagine, as well, that rather than simply a compilation of written data and words, this system contains countless videotape films and pictures, providing the viewer with an eyewitness account of all that had ever happened within any historical time frame. Finally, imagine that this enormous database not only keeps track of the information from an objective perspective but also maintains the perspectives and emotions of every individual involved. As incredible as it may sound, this description gives a fairly accurate representation of the Akashic Records”

The other one is about “spermatikoi logoi”, which I wrote about in http://www.indranet.org/mental-territories/:
Stoic philosophers used to consider the world as permeated by spermatikoi logoi, seminal reasons, inseminating verbs. Various mystic philosophies consider universal concepts and the universal mind like ubiquitous entities, that are like the bricks on top of which the most complex structures are built. Millions and millions of people who everyday search for words with Google and other search engines create an image of small particles of thought condensing over Google’s computer servers and thence bounce back fertilized by new information, which in turn generate further requests.

Seems that at least some of the universal concepts are already present, but this could easily be a nature versus nurture problem. We are born with a certain genetic imprint but our genes can be activated or deactivated according to our environment and upbringing. At the level of universal concepts could be that there is a certain number of concepts already present as universal bricks, and then human beings build on them.

I just wonder, if the mind is not an idea manufacturer but rather an idea receiver, then where are the ideas produced from? Were they always there just waiting for us? I hardly think so.
Here’s my very personal opinion:
When humans talk to each other something happens in their brains, some abstract thoughts (not ideas) begin to take form in an endless cycle. Having an open mind allows those thoughts to have shape and hence they become ideas. They are not personal since they were created out of the interaction between a person and the rest of the world, but the work of materializing them is personal.
So like in the internet, every time we read and talk we’re just adding up to the abstract massive cloud of thoughts. There is no value in saying that we “added” something to the cloud of thoughts, but there is value in discriminating and materializing those thoughts into ideas. They might not be personal in a sense that they were created by everyone, but at the end of the day it’s like gold in a mine, the gold’s the mine process but if I go and dig it it becomes mine and I can do whatever I want with it.