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Hive mind?
Kugai:
Resistance is futile
LTK:
--- Quote from: Milesb on 17 Feb 2012, 15:47 ---Does this post make sense? (I know what I'm trying to say but I'm struggling to say it)
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Ah, I know exactly what you're trying to say. Just as many physical skills depend on muscle memory to execute, cognitive skills depend on stereotyped processing of patterns of information. A master chess player has many different patterns of chess pieces stored in his memory, all of which have specific moves and strategies associated with them. It's similar with other cognitive skills, and this is not something you can learn by reading or hearing about it, but accelerating the rate of communication could certainly help in providing immediate feedback, when another person can see what you see and do.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: LTK on 17 Feb 2012, 15:50 ---Give me one example of how humanity would be worse off as a hive mind.
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Art.
DSL:
Considering bow easily the mob mentality takes over, I don't think a hive mind is that implausible at all. Whether that's good. ... I have plenty of doubts. Individuality achieves; hive mind maintains and conforms.
Redball:
This thread is well into the realm of science fiction, and since I haven't been a serious reader of S-F in 40 years, I'm thinking of the science fiction of my young adulthood. Humankind wouldn't take quickly to a hive mind, it seems to me. It would take generations to accomplish such a swerve in our individuality and our associations and groups. I'm not sure that groups, large or small, couldn't accomplish or achieve, or innovate or create great art. And I don't think anyone today can do more than speculate with a probability factor of a few percent.
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