It seems to me that civilizations have an emergent intellect that operates and updates on a larger timescale than individual generations, and is usually not comprehended and rarely apprehended by even the most educated members of its polis.
No. I don't think that Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields are a good explanation for anything; they seem to be magical to me.
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