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:

    “The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That’s the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.”
    —Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)

    “The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)