Just an FYI: one of the finance gurus I follow closely (James Dines) is a huge proponent of the notion of a "mass mind." I'd certainly had thoughts along a similar line but I had never viewed it as an inherent, essential feature of the Universe until recently.
This is the video he uses to illustrate the concept succinctly. Thousands of birds moving in unison with (to my knowledge) no scientifically quantifiable explanation: it's an analogy that certainly has proven extremely useful to me as far as understanding the world we live in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY
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