[Paleopsych] if neurons sing the melody, do astrocytes sing bass?

[HowlBloom at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/2/2004 8:23:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
shovland at mindspring.com writes:
What are the mechanisms of mass-mood-summation
in groups of humans- other than the obvious forms
of media and interaction?
Culture--books, libraries, hit songs, cds, mp3s, presidential speeches,  
sports, card games, tradition, holidays, weekends, religious preferences, the 
nightly news, gossip, the sunday new york times, sit-coms, the most forwarded 
emails, the most popular blogs, and something larger to which they all contribute 
and from which they all descend--the zeitgiest--the zeigeist of their time, 
the zeitgeist of their civilization, and the zeitgeists of individual 
subcultures.  Howard

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Howard Bloom
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of 
History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 
21st Century
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Faculty 
Member, The Graduate Institute
www.howardbloom.net
www.bigbangtango.net
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic 
of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The 
Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy 
of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International 
Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive 
editor -- New Paradigm book series.
For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: 
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for two chapters from 
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, 
see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang 
to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net
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