Hive mind
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A hive mind or group mind may refer to:
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Shared intelligence
- Collective consciousness or collective intelligence, concepts in sociology and philosophy
- Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness
- Groupthink, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making
- Sheeple, a derogatory term referring to groups of people who mindlessly follow those in power
- Swarm intelligence, the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial
- The apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects such as ants, bees, and termites
- Universal mind, a type of universal higher consciousness in some esoteric beliefs
- Egregore, a concept in occultism which has been described as group mind
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See also
- Intentionality
- Hive
- The Group Mind, a book by William McDougall
- Crowdsourcing
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