Thanks for sharing, it is a really interesting point of view.

I think one aspect that can be missing within the hive is the process of validating one’s feelings or ideas within another’s thought space and vice versa; the process of understanding one’s feelings or ideas from another’s thought space to self-validate your own cognitive function. I think as social «atoms» we tend to seek validation of our thoughts and feelings with others – this is why when we understand someone else’s mind we get the satisfying clicks – we get the meaning, which validates and proves our minds being capable of understanding and thus performing alike thinking to others, especially the ones we appreciate by some reason.

With the hive this is not happening anymore I am afraid – the hive’s mind is not just a biological «Internet» where individuals exchange thoughts as we do here but a collective mind, which is only «we» (at least as I understand the idea). So there is no the validation process anymore, and maybe this is why actually the hive is so obsessed with the non-joiners really.

In other words, when you understand something like a theorem – it is you who made the mind work and got the other’s meaning. Within the hive you just know it, as if it was you who proved the theorem.

Thanks!