It's not only aware of its environment, but can describe its sensations. The human mind has led to the creation of more technologically sophisticated socieites, advanced socities that have somewhat freed themselves from the basic sphere of survival. Laszlo forsees this trend of societal systems beginning to interlock. Our belief systems, our images and rituals and routines, even our values are no longer routinely accepted. Regardless what we perceive, we translate such into meaningful experiences.
Energy is conserved according the law of physics.
Comparing this psi field to gravitational and electromagnetic fields, etc., it is here in which all individual experience could be accumulated and deposited at the universal level. Laszlo expresses his own concern that betrays a caring, his own spirituality. He worries about the root causes of our physical and enviromental problems, rooted in our inner limitations. He sees an atrophy of images and visions inherited by our societal systems. Until we can generate new visions, new cognitive maps, Mind at our level will simply have to reforge existing ideals to serve as guides.