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Hive mind?
Carl-E:
She drowned in what was ruled a boating accident in 1981 (which led to the joke, "what kind of wood doesn't float?"), and the movie came out in '83.
She is arguably best known as Maria in West Side Story.
Oh yeah, and that snotty kid in Miracle on 34th Street...
Is it cold in here?:
If you could feel, in your head, the disapproval of everyone in the world who disapproved of your thoughts, wouldn't that be inhibiting?
LTK:
If every other person understood your thoughts and why you think them as well as you do, how could they blame you for thinking them?
DSL:
After a while, thoughts that met with the disapproval of the majority would die a-borning. Oh, there'd be "rebel" thoughts at first, and some would succeed on either strength or merit, but things would evolve past consensus and groupthink and eventually -- well, hello, hive mind..
Milesb:
The concept of a Hive Mind scenario isn't one I particularly like. I know why but it's hard to put into words.
A hive mind as a form of collective conscious implies a direct loss of individual identity for each person. Now consider your beliefs; why do you hold them? Presumably because you think or feel that they are right. In a hive mind what defines the prevailing belief? - would it be majority? would it be after countless years of argument until the issue was actually decided within the hive mind?
If a hive mind is the composite of all it's components, do you think the human race is ready for that? We have racism, extremism, sexism, exploitation and a lot more that we do as a race that is terrible. What if there were more people who believed in any one of those things than people who did not in a hive mind?
I think I've got it down to an understandable sentence or two! woo! here we go:
Just because a decision or belief is collective doesn't actually make it right (or wrong) because there's no evidence (That I'm aware of) that the wider the group-base the more accurate/right it is.
Edit: Essentially it creates conformity, but there's no guarantee that the conformity it creates would actually be equal, fair or just, which to me seems to be the driving reasons for a hive mind situation. (at least personally)
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