"We" is a peculiar entity. While "we" can agree or disagree, "we" cannot think. Thinking is the domain of the autonomous individual.
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Replying to @Plinz
Have you read 'A Fire Upon the Deep'? Centerpoint of the plot is a species in which packs of 3-4 are the smallest/dominant "unit of civilization" and have human-level intelligence while individual members don't.
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Replying to @S0lll0s
Yes, and it is a beautiful concept, enabled by an innate ultrasonic brain link. If you link human brains via social protocols, they introduce constraints on their mental agency to improve convergence, which tends to make them stupid. (we are transgenerationally cumulative though)
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Replying to @Plinz
don't the individual Tines also constrain their individual mental agency? They cannot even leave the packs immediate vicinity anymore, let alone use their mental capabilities outside of the shared processing in the group
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or did you mean that we place limits on the mental agency of the social constructs we form?
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To form a viable hive mind, the individual hosts need to suppress rationality and intentions that would contradict the egregore. This is why ideologues tend to appear so stupid. It's the price they pay for effective coordination.
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