Group Mind

Group mind can mean:

  • Collective intelligence, a concept in sociology and philosophy
  • Egregore is a phenomenon in occultism which has been described as group mind.
  • Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness
  • A metaphor for the group behaviour of social insects
  • The Group Mind, a book by William McDougall (psychologist). ISBN 1-4179-0508-5.

Famous quotes containing the words group and/or mind:

    “For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)

    “‘All that was, seemed as if it had been not;
    And all the gazer’s mind was strewn beneath
    Her feet like embers; and she, thought by thought,
    ‘Trampled its sparks into the dust of death;”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)