collective conciousness

[Deleted]

The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

[Afrospinach]

We do, it is called society.

I hope you took that as consciousness not conscienceless. Sprained wrist, having trouble typing and apparently reading auto correct too.

[Noradin]

I hope you took that as consciousness not conscienceless. Sprained wrist, having trouble typing and apparently reading auto correct too.

I did. It was kind of obvious
Auto correct is a pain, and especially unsuited for the English language in my opinion.
I read a lot of English texts (by native speakers) and the number of words that are "spelled correctly" but not the word that should be in their place is staggering.

[dextersmith]

Does a collective consciousness such as demonstrated by the Borg from star trek really have a clear advantage over individual thought? Which would you rather have?

Compare the lives of bees and ants to ours, would you miss your individuality and aspirations? Imagine baby-factory related complaints spouted by feminists.

[Stonecloak]

Does a collective consciousness such as demonstrated by the Borg from star trek really have a clear advantage over individual thought? Which would you rather have?

Sounds good in theory, and is true to an extent, it's just when there's so much noise going on like it is today, most people don't tap into it unless there's a very dramatic event.

[Powerogue]

I just got done watching a Rick and Morty episode about just that concept.

I'm going to go with, while it would make things a lot simpler, perhaps more efficient, and maybe even happier....

Two are better than one. While our differences often drive us apart, we still find ourselves working together, and our diversity is our strength. If we were all clones in body, one outbreak of disease would kill us all. So it would be if we were all clones of mind. The Unimind makes a bad decision, there's no one else to slap them upside the head and get them to stop. No one to drag it's sorry ass back home after it spent the whole night out drinking.

We'd be dead by morning.

[Celista]

This is an interesting topic and I approve. Would groupthink processes be an inherent aspect of collective consciousness? If so then individual thought would have a clear advantage here, as it would be slightly more likely to not engage in such fallacies of cognition/behavior.

[Spiral Mage]

I have enough people in my head, I don't need the rest of the world in there, too!

[SodiumChloride]

I think it's important to separate the different components of "consciousness" .

Things like "preferences" can't really be merged since they could be mutually exclusive.

Knowledge, facts and know-how, will of course be beneficial to merged - i.e. the combined knowledge of the human race - since it will allow better decision making.

[Revi]

Our variety, specifically the people far from the norm, is the reason we've made it this far, I don't see a hive-mind outweighing this. Sounds like a recipe for wiping out all alternative opinions, points of view, approaches, ambitions, thoughts..

[Templar 331]

I'd rather have it like the Protoss where you feel other people's minds instead of share other thoughts.