>>16717550carl jung understood the collective unconscious as the origin of the mandela effect. when one person misremembers an event, it's an error. when said individual asserts this misremembered event absolutely happened, they are a kook. when many individuals (all of whom talk to each other) misremember an event, we say they influenced each others opinions until they settled on the false truth. we conclude they are all humans, and some placated their friends.
and when a collective of independent observers, separated by generations, language, culture, and space have no communication with each other and all independently "misremember" the same event, we shrug and say "this is weird - it's the mandela effect!" in reality, they're all experiencing the same excitation of the collective unconscious. "science" hates acknowledging this, because it begs the question: what causes the excitations?
the natural conclusion to draw is one of two possibilities. the unifying aspect between both possibilities is that all (or some) brains are connected to each other by some fields. in the first interpretation, individual brains can cause excitations in the field and subconsciously influence other brains. this is a pill no scientist wishes to swallow. the alternative is that some events, independent of the individual brains, intrinsic to the field itself causes the individual brains to respond to the stimulus. this is again a pill scientists do not wish to swallow, since it leads to supernatural phenomena (there are of course random explanations, but this is hard to square with the specificity the mandela effect has to humans... why would people randomly think mandela was dead?)