The Collective Unconscious

A Reservoir of Qualia that Connects Us All

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In the year 1916, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung coined the term “collective unconscious”. He used it to refer to a hypothetical set of shared mental concepts that are thought to exist below the level of the conscious mind, somewhere deep within us, in a reservoir of qualia that connects us all. Simply put, according to Jung, there is a part of everyone’s…