Communalness
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Communalness, as suggested by Robert A. Freitas Jr., is a level of an emergent phenomen which originates from Electronic sentience, and represents a broader mode of thinking than just normal consciousness. While consciousness is limited to the individual, communalness describes a complex organization of numerous individuals which on a higher level is tightly connected to each other. Such an organization would maybe have the same intimate awareness of its own existence as a whole as people have consciousness of their own bodies.
[edit] See also
- Collective intelligence
- Consciousness
- Electronic sentience
- Emergence
- Hormonal sentience
- Neurohacking
- Neuronal sentience
- Sentience Quotient
