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    Hive Mind: Fundamentals and Applications
    Hive Mind: Fundamentals and Applications
    Hive Mind: Fundamentals and Applications
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    Hive Mind: Fundamentals and Applications

    By Fouad Sabry

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    What Is Hive Mind


    In science fiction, a group mind, also known as a group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence, is a story device in which several minds or consciousnesses are joined into a single, collective consciousness or intellect. Other names for this plot device include "group ego," "mind coalescence," and "gestalt intelligence." The use of human hive minds in literature dates back at least as far as David H. Keller's The Human Termites and Olaf Stapledon's science fiction novel Last and First Men (1930), which is the first known use of the term "group mind" in science fiction. The first alien hive society was depicted in H. G. Wells's novel The First Men in the Moon (1901). However, the earliest known use of the phrase "hive mind" in science fiction was in James H. Schmitz's Second Night of Summer (1950). The phrase was originally used in the context of beekeeping in 1943 and was recorded for the first time in that year. Any fictional plot element that enables brains to communicate with one another, such as telepathy, has the potential to foster the formation of a group mind.


    How You Will Benefit


    (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:


    Chapter 1: Group mind (science fiction)


    Chapter 2: Hive mind


    Chapter 3: Mind


    Chapter 4: Intelligence amplification


    Chapter 5: Sentience


    Chapter 6: Mind uploading


    Chapter 7: Mind uploading in fiction


    Chapter 8: Psionics


    Chapter 9: Insectoids in science fiction


    Chapter 10: Linguistics in science fiction


    (II) Answering the public top questions about hive mind.


    (III) Real world examples for the usage of hive mind in many fields.


    (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of hive mind' technologies.


    Who This Book Is For


    Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of hive mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Billion Knowledgeable
    Release dateJul 2, 2023
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      Hive Mind - Fouad Sabry

      Chapter 1: Group mind (science fiction)

      A plot device in science fiction where several minds or consciousnesses are connected into a single, collective consciousness or intelligence is called a group mind, group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence. Any fictional plot element that enables brain to brain communication, such as telepathy, could result in the formation of a group consciousness.

      This phrase and hive mind can be used interchangeably.

      Hive brains are frequently depicted in science fiction as implying an almost total loss (or absence) of individuality, identity, and personality. Similar to social insects, the members of the hive may specialize in distinct tasks.

      {End Chapter 1}

      Chapter 2: Hive mind

      use the free online dictionary Wiktionary to look up hivemind.

      A communal mind or hive mind may be used to:

      Concepts from sociology and philosophy known as collective consciousness and collective intelligence

      Collective awareness in science fiction is referred to as group mind.

      Groupthink is characterized by irrational or dysfunctional decision-making as a result of a group's desire for harmony or conformity.

      Sheeple, a derogatory term referring to groups of people who ‘mindlessly’ follow those in power

      The collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial, is known as swarm intelligence.

      The apparent consciousness of ant, bee, and termite colonies, as well as other social insects

      Some esoteric beliefs refer to the universal mind as a form of the universal higher consciousness.

      Egregore, an occult idea that has been compared to a collective consciousness

      Garett Jones's 2015 nonfiction book Hive Mind

      2018's Hive Mind (album by The Internet)

      2012's Hive Mind (Sinch album).

      They Might Be Giants' 2013 track Hive Mind off the album Nanobots

      Circle of Dust's 2016 song Hive Mind from Machines of Our Disgrace

      2017 song Hive Mind by Blanck Mass from World Eater

      The 2021 song Hive Mind by Tirzah from Colourgrade

      From To Speak of Wolves' 2012 album Find Your Worth, Come Home, the song Hivemind

      Slipknot's 2022 song Hivemind from The End, So Far

      Will Wright intended to make a video game called HiveMind, but it was never launched.

      A software framework called Apache HiveMind

      Fiona Bruce is the host of the BBC4 quiz show Hive Minds, which debuted in 2015.

      {End Chapter 2}

      Chapter 3: Mind

      The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. They include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. However, the term can also refer to the mental phenomena themselves, like perception, pleasure and pain, belief, desire, intention, and emotion. They can be divided into different categories, such as conscious and unconscious states or sensory and non-sensory states. The exact nature of the mind is disputed. Traditionally, minds were understood as substances. But contemporary philosophers tend to see them as properties or capacities. There is a lengthy tradition in philosophy, religion, psychology, and cognitive science about what constitutes a mind and what are its distinguishing properties.

      Mind or mentality is usually contrasted with body, matter or physicality. The issue of the nature of this contrast and specifically the relation between mind and brain is called the mind-body problem. For example, whether mind is exclusive to humans, possessed also by some or all animals, by all living things, whether it is a strictly definable characteristic at all, or whether mind can also be a property of some types of human-made machines.

      Different cultural and religious traditions often use different concepts of mind, resulting in different answers to these questions. Some see mind as a property exclusive to humans whereas others ascribe properties of mind to non-living entities (e.g. panpsychism and animism), to animals and to deities. Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind (sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

      Psychologists such as Freud and James, and computer scientists such as Turing developed influential theories about the nature of the mind. The possibility of nonbiological minds is explored in the field of artificial intelligence, which works closely in relation with cybernetics and information theory to understand the ways in which information processing by nonbiological machines is comparable or different to mental phenomena in the human mind.

      The original meaning of Old English gemynd was the faculty of memory, not of thought in general.

      The meaning of memory is shared with Old Norse, which has munr.

      The word is originally from a PIE verbal root *men-, meaning to think, remember, whence also Latin mens mind, Sanskrit manas mind and Greek μένος mind, courage, anger.

      The generalization of mind to include all mental faculties, thought, volition, feeling and memory, gradually develops over the 14th and 15th centuries.

      The mind is often understood as a faculty that manifests itself in mental phenomena like sensation, perception, thinking, reasoning, memory, belief, desire, emotion and motivation.

      Epistemic approaches emphasize that the subject has privileged access to all or at least some of their mental states.

      Intentionality-based approaches see intentionality as the mark of the mental.

      Behaviorist definitions characterize mental states as dispositions to engage in certain publicly observable behavior as a reaction to particular external stimuli.

      Broadly speaking, mental faculties are the various functions of the mind, or things the mind can do.

      Thought is a mental act that allows humans to make sense of things in the world, and to represent and interpret them in ways that are significant, or which accord with their needs, attachments, goals, commitments, plans, ends, desires, etc. Thinking involves the symbolic or semiotic mediation of ideas or data, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reasoning, and making decisions. Words that refer to similar concepts and processes include deliberation, cognition, ideation, discourse and imagination.

      Thinking is sometimes described as a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is a part of cognitive psychology. It is also deeply connected with our capacity to make and use tools; to understand cause and effect; to recognize patterns of significance; to comprehend and disclose unique contexts of experience or activity; and to respond to the world in a meaningful way.

      Memory is the ability to preserve, retain and subsequently recall knowledge, information, or experience. Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the pillars of a new branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

      Imagination is the activity of generating or evoking novel situations, images, ideas or other qualia in the mind. It is a characteristically subjective activity, rather than a direct or passive experience. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as imaging or imagery or to speak of it as reproductive as opposed to productive or constructive imagination. Things imagined are said to be seen in the mind's eye. Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures (or histories), to see things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

      Consciousness in mammals (this includes humans) is an aspect of the mind generally thought to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, sentience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is subjective experience itself, and access consciousness, which refers to the global availability of information to processing systems in the brain. Phenomenal consciousness has many different experienced qualities, often referred to as qualia. Phenomenal consciousness is usually consciousness of something or about something, a property known as intentionality in philosophy of mind.

      The mental phenomena brought about by the faculties of the mind have been categorized according to various distinctions. Important distinctions group mental phenomena together according to whether they are sensory, qualitative, propositional, intentional, conscious, occurrent or rational. These different distinctions result in overlapping categorizations. Some mental phenomena, like perception or bodily awareness, are sensory, i.e. based on the senses.

      Mental contents are those items that are thought of as being in the mind, and capable of being formed and manipulated by mental processes and faculties. Examples include thoughts, concepts, memories, emotions, percepts and intentions. Philosophical theories of mental content include internalism, externalism, representationalism and intentionality.

      Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, which was originated by Richard Dawkins and Douglas Hofstadter in the 1980s. It is an evolutionary model of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, is an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour (etc.) hosted in one or more individual minds, and can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief, is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself.

      In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for thought. In most animals, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, equilibrioception, taste and olfaction. While all vertebrates have a brain, most invertebrates have either a centralized brain or collections of individual ganglia. Primitive animals such as sponges do not have a brain at all. Brains can be extremely complex. For example, the human brain contains around 86 billion neurons, each linked to as many as 10,000 others.

      In addition to the philosophical questions, the relationship between mind and brain involves a number of scientific questions, including understanding the relationship between mental activity and brain activity, the exact mechanisms by which drugs influence cognition, and the neural correlates of consciousness.

      Theoretical approaches to explain how mind emerges from the brain include connectionism, computationalism and Bayesian brain.

      The evolution of human intelligence refers to several theories that aim to describe how human intelligence has evolved in relation to the evolution of the human brain and the origin of language.

      The

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