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

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