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:

    “Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”
    —Simone Weil (1910–1943)

    “Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)