It's just a question

Today's headline from Aeon (online newsletter):

                                                                    Hive consciousness

New research places us on the cusp of brain-to-brain communication. Could the next step spell the end of individual minds?

What if --- this group mind is actually how Humanity operates now and always has? Language is one pointer in this direction. What if the reality of an "individual mind" is actually the rarely realized goal of mystics throughout history.  Or would be, if binary thought was more than a tool useful for chopping up the external macro world. For in fact the human organism is both tied together and capable of acting independently. And my counter example just highlights the nature of binary rational thought: everything is either this or that. Sorry Soren, it really could be -- both.