Article: Species Forerunners: Can Humanity Grow Up in Time? - The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. Individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts - he makes a contribution. But very few change them very much. David Bohm, Physicist, On Dialogue