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Swarms, regardless of the forces that bring them together, have a remarkable ability to act like a collective mind.
Nations have a collective mind that is the product of intellectual, religious and social interactions and that is consolidated by centuries long historical experiences.
Such a collective mind becomes an internal inherent compass that is resistant to influences aimed at forcing it to change direction.
So it probably makes sense that if the internet is conceived as a collective mind, artists will be drawn to its "unconscious" – to the deep web.
If you have seen a school of 10,000 sand eels swerving as one animal under a wharf, you have seen that individuals can integrate their senses into a collective mind.
Traditional religious images of ourselves as God's creatures, or even of God, could be in for a rough time if we ever discover pond scum living by completely alien chemical rules on some moon or planet, let alone the Borg — the alien race ruled by a collective mind on "Star Trek" — inhabiting some distant realm.
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Usually, with changes in the behavior of citizens, from paperwork and check-writing to constraints on hiring practices, negotiations, and compromises, all of which the libertarian takes as an onerous encumbrance and even, at times, a collective mind-control.
A self-professed admirer and follower of the consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Mr. Parker dwells at some length on what he calls "the dark side of wine," a sleazy world inhabited by greedy producers, shady importers, rich and ignorant collectors, outright crooks and the wine media, which, he charges "has a collective mind-set of never having met a wine it doesn't like".
If you come from a small, wet country such as Scotland, one with a vigorous collective mind and a fierce sense of exploration, then the farthest reaches of the Earth can begin to seem like a destination.
After all, when you put a bunch of people in the same room, their individual minds do not form a single collective mind.
It's as if a single collective mind, the generic mind of photojournalism, were being channeled by different people with only superficially varying inflections.
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