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:

    “Instead of seeing society as a collection of clearly defined “interest groups,” society must be reconceptualized as a complex network of groups of interacting individuals whose membership and communication patterns are seldom confined to one such group alone.”
    —Diana Crane (b. 1933)

    “Immortal glories in my mind revive,
    And in my soul a thousand passions strive,
    When Rome’s exalted beauties I descry
    Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)