Group Consciousness (and later, Schrodinger's Cat)
Virtual groups interacting with their members appear to exhibit some form of group consciousness. This group consciousness may in large part determine the effectiveness or longevity of the group. Groups such as chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards, twitter groups, blogs or weblog comment areas, etc. may exhibit this consciousness as well. Warnock's Dilemma represents a point of indeterminacy within the group consciousness and may progenerate a potentially abstruse impasse to the continued existence of the group.
Let's examine a theory about how consciousness exists within an individual human organism; then we'll attempt to relate the idea to a larger, synthetic group:
In the human body, consciousness is hypothesized to be..."not the prerogative of any one brain area; instead, its neural substrates are widely dispersed throughout the so-called thalamocortical system and associated regions.
Second, to support conscious experience, a large number of groups of neurons must interact rapidly and reciprocally through the process called reentry. If these reentrant interactions are blocked, entire sectors of consciousness disappear, and consciousness itself may shrink or split.
Finally...the activity patterns of the groups of neurons that support conscious experience must be constantly changing and sufficiently differentiated from one other. If a large number of neurons in the brain start firing in the same way, reducting the diversity of the brain's neuronal repertoires, as is the case in deep sleep and epilepsy, consciousness disappears." A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi
Daniel C. Dennett has suggested that "consciousness may itself be viewed simply as that to which ‘we’ have access". Global Workspace Theory suggests that consciousness creates global access. Just as in biological processes, 'access' is defective in Warnock's clusters; synchronization between networked nodes is restricted and signal propagation within the social group appears irrealizable.