Thank you minglyn for answering that question
and bringing it up again! When I first saw it, I was not sure what to answer to that, but now we know a bit more. The PL 10 aspect body of every animal, plant, human and whatever else has a kind of soul on the earth property form the collective consciousness.
I want to add that there is also a collective knowledge (wisdom) which is different than the collective consciousness and is located on PL 11.2 (formed by each single PL 11.2 body of every soul on the earth property).
It is the counterpart to the consciousness and both have been influenced by the darks, but none of it was an OIC invention.