Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In social psychol., the collective mind of a group, class, or society; the stock of beliefs, customs, attitudes, etc., common to the members of such a group.
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Examples
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There are some great choices here, but one glaring omission as far as I'm concerned: Vernor Vinge's "Tines" from A Fire Upon the Deep -- dog-like aliens that have limited intelligence individually, but become conscious entities ( "individuals") in group-mind packs of four or more.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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Her goal is to lodge in the group-mind the idea that a more productive response to “mistakes” is to try to do better next time, just a notch better.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
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The Shrill are a networked group-mind alien life form.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 25.1 of 31.1 2010
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We see this principle of emergence vividly illustrated by the powerful, rational, utility maximizing emergent group-mind of an ant colony.
Consider the Ant 2009
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