well considering that humans are social creatures (remember
   learning about those poor babies that the nurses didn't have
   time to pick up and ho...ld... and.. they didn't make it? I
   think the 30s or something... simply awful but not in vain;) -
   and our cultural assumptions are imbued into us from the very
   first encounter with Mom in the delivery room, all throughout
   our lives... a collective consciousness is most definitely a
   strong possibility. If you add to it... "