Hive mind

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Hive mind can mean:

• In psychology:
  • Collective consciousness
  • Conformity (psychology)
  • Groupthink
• Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness
• The apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects such as ants, bees and termites
• An attribute of certain fictional races:
  • The hive mind of the Borg race in the Star Trek TV series and movies, often personified by the Borg Queen
  • The hive mind of the Kha'ak in the X game series
  • The hive mind of the Buggers from Ender's Game
  • A necromorph referred to as the "Hive Mind" in the Dead Space video game
  • The Gravemind, the central consciousness of the fictional parasite known as the Flood in the Halo series universe
  • The hive mind of the Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000
  • The Overmind, the hive mind of the fictional Zerg race in the StarCraft series
  • The Xar-Ggothua from Xombie
• Universal mind may be defined as the nonlocal and atemporal "hive mind" of all aggregates, components, constituents, relationships, personalities, entities, technologies, processes and cycles of the universe.
• Hivemind (software), a software framework

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