collective mind
Group thinking together
A collective mind is the shared consciousness, knowledge, or thinking of a group acting as a unified entity.
The term appears in discussions of hive behavior, group psychology, and networked intelligence: The internet functions as a kind of collective mind.
It can suggest either cooperative wisdom or loss of individual thought: The committee had developed a collective mind that discouraged dissent.
- swarm intelligenceDecentralized group decision-making
- groupthinkConformity-driven poor decisions
- mob mentalityCollective irrationality in groups
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- swarmMass of moving insects
telepathy · unified · herd · mob · shared · neurons · network · synchronized · borg · gestalt · consensus · think tank · psychic · same wavelength · connected · mass · colony · unconscious
- collective geniusbrainstorming, synergy, teamwork, collaboration, co-creation
- Fictional codesprime directive, chivalric code
- positivismpositivism, social dynamics
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