The emergence of non stop data streams such as Twitter streams alongside the non stop data streams of our thoughts is leading to an overlap in which the give and take of exchanging thoughts happens so quickly that it is almost impossible to tell where an idea starts. The question of an origin is made moot.
We’ve left old thermodynamic-based paradigms behind and have transitioned into a reality understood in terms of quantum physics: we’ve learned that particles react in ways both predictable and chaotic—creating a science of the unscientific—a fractal physics that maps invisible energy exchanges. While it seems like magic, the increased occurrences of online telepathy are a matter of people integrating the same data using the same post-modern assimilation processes at the same time. Online telepathy is similar in its workings to the way men and women have often had the same idea in different places at the same time—such as the invention/discovery of physics by Newton and Leibniz—something the psychoanalyst Carl Jung pointed out in his study of UFO sightings:
Things can be seen by many people independently of one another, or even simultaneously, which are not physically real. Also, the association-processes of many people often have a parallelism in time and space, with the result that different people, simultaneously and independently of one another, can produce the same new ideas, as has happened numerous times in history. (13 Jung UFO)