> Some realities cannot be reduced nor should they be reduced to analogies like "hive". Our social reality is irreductible being the most complex one known.
I don't understand how that has any bearing on whether human society can form hive minds or hive mind like entities.
> Hive mind as an emergent property still implies a common thing for which one lives. Or a queen. A peer that is one's reason to live.
No that is absolutely not what a hive mind is. A hive mind is a collective consciousness. That's it. It says nothing about the objectives or agency of it's parts.
> We are all different and it is not because a person one talks with does not express a different opinion does it mean he thinks the same.
You seem to be laboring under the apprehension that a hive mind supplants the consciousness of it's parts. That may be the case for certain hive minds, but it is not a necessary feature. A hive mind can just be an emergent property of individual minds that are strongly connected but still retain agency.
Mindless conformity is inhuman. We are more tribal than "hival".
Thanks for precising hive mind, I understand it better now.
Hive mind can be seen as uncritical conformity or collective intelligence. Because it can be understood as uncritical conformity I will use another word/concept. Like tribal mind. Because it suggests tribes (plural) that one belongs to or not, status, etc
I don't understand how that has any bearing on whether human society can form hive minds or hive mind like entities.
> Hive mind as an emergent property still implies a common thing for which one lives. Or a queen. A peer that is one's reason to live.
No that is absolutely not what a hive mind is. A hive mind is a collective consciousness. That's it. It says nothing about the objectives or agency of it's parts.
> We are all different and it is not because a person one talks with does not express a different opinion does it mean he thinks the same.
You seem to be laboring under the apprehension that a hive mind supplants the consciousness of it's parts. That may be the case for certain hive minds, but it is not a necessary feature. A hive mind can just be an emergent property of individual minds that are strongly connected but still retain agency.