Hive mind
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A hive mind or group mind may refer to a number of uses or concepts, ranging from positive to neutral and pejorative. Examples include:
- Collective consciousness or collective intelligence, concepts in sociology and philosophy
- Culture A collective of knowledge, art, artifacts, symbols and social ritual
- The apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects such as ants, bees and termites
- Swarm intelligence, the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial
- Universal mind, a type of universal higher consciousness or source of being in some esoteric beliefs
- Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness
- Egregore is a phenomenon in occultism which has been described as group mind.
- Groupthink
See also
- Apache HiveMind, a software framework
- HiveMind, an upcoming video game being designed by Will Wright
- Hive Mind (album), a 2012 album by Sinch
- Hive Minds, a BBC4 quiz-show started in 2015 and hosted by Fiona Bruce
- The Group Mind, a book by William McDougall (psychologist). ISBN 1-4179-0508-5
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