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Re:Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI... by short_sells_poo on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:23PM (#21652761)
> 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.

Re:Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI... by Xc43 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:24PM (#21658881)
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