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. The closest thing I can see to a hive mind is the army.
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.
Would one say that lions have a hive mind?
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.
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
We may not be a hive mind, but we may have one.