#hivemind stuff

[fleouriarts]

me and who

[robylovi]

AAA CONGRATS TO THE AWESOME AMAZING AND TALENTED @the-fandom-phantom FOR 300 FOLLOWERS ‼️‼️ HERE’S MY CONTRIBUTION TO HER DTIYS 💕💕

[inonibird]

I've been introduced to the TTRPG called Wildsea and now I'm going to make it everyone's problem. This is Beezley. They are bees. That is, I've broken my creative slump by immediately coming up with a character concept that is a variant of the Tzelicrae race in this setting (which is officially described as "Spider-colonies wrapped in humanesque skins; thousands of tiny arachnid minds threaded like beads on a string to produce a full, rich sapience", hive-minded swarms who either create protective shells made of cloth and salvage or unnervingly puppeteer bodies that are no longer needed), but I'm arachnophobic, so...BEES. :D Yes, Beezley found a dead body and built their hive around the skull and there is 100% a sticky, honeycomb-encrusted skeleton under those clothes. :'D

[solargeist]

i think the Watchers are talented beautiful artists, they adore creating, but, i think that since a lot of them have access to a sorta ~creative mode, able to spawn in things, and are so, so, old, they lose their way a bit and take cheaper routes, just to get through their schedules.

why cook ? they can spawn in food. theres no use for grinding, they can build walls in seconds, theres no need to travel for supplies, no need to go beyond what they know, no need to be extra.

its much like a/i "art", its easy, but so soullessness, lazy, and cheap.

another layer of disappointment for Grian. at first, everything seems so beautiful, so overwhelming, but the food is bland, and he notices the asymmetry, he counts the stone tiles across the hall and down.

Hes looked at in confusion or even annoyance when he suggests doing things the longer way.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 237

“Wait, so, Captain Marvel is like, three?” 

Said hero pauses as he nearly passes by a cracked door, creeping slightly closer despite it being more than a little rude to eavesdrop. All of the gods were insistent, which he could say no to, but Billy was giving him the equivalent of puppy eyes, which they all knew he was weak to. 

He? They? Marvel was technically an amalgamation of the past champions, currently split between six beings, though nowhere near equally. Billy was and would be the chosen champion- pure of heart to be able to resist the Gods’ bullshit- but he had chosen a team himself, which honestly Marvel approved. 

“What the fuck do you mean by that, Hal?” 

He didn’t move from the corner, head tilting slightly at Green Lantern’s and Green Arrow’s words. Billy, not physically there, not really, wiggled down from his shoulder, passing through the wall like a ghost invisible to all but him. 

Well, him and the Gods, but Mercury’s words were muffled, nearly silenced by Solomon at the moment, so he was probably attempting to wax poetic about Flash again in a way that little ears shouldn’t hear. 

“I mean, Marvel mentioned he was created three years ago, right?” 

Ah. Marvel had meant that the newest Champion had been chosen, but well, he supposed that the team didn’t have all the information, as Solomon pointed out. And he was pretty sure that Billy was mostly in control at that point- it could get confusing with the hive-mind but not-hive-mind. It was hard to explain to those not apart of it. 

But they had to go now, Fawcett called, and it wasn’t like Billy could leave it for long. Chances were nothing would come from this anyway. 

…

Why does this feel like the intervention videos Billy showed them all. 

[sophieinwonderland]

Hiveminds and Multiplicity

When thinking about Hiveminds, I realized that hivemind connection is a spectrum, with many plural or plural-like experiences across it.

At the same time, both the beginning and end of this spectrum are singlet experiences. I decided to represent this with my own horseshoe theory.

Unconnected Individuals

This is pretty self-explanatory. These are totally separate individuals with their totally separate bodies. These are not even the slightest bit plural. Or, at least, not for any hivemind related reasons.

Mind-Linked

Now we drift into plural territory.

At this point, the individuals have some sort of mental link to each other. Mind links can range in levels of complexity.

At a low level, this may mean feeling each other's emotions or sensing when something really bad happens with no words or other communication. The most basic form of this might be "twintuition" in shows, where twins can magically sense when something happens to another no matter where they are.

At high levels, this can come with full verbal communication and other hallucinatory experiences.

Mind-linked systems often have strong barriers between them, only being able to transfer limited information, and maybe only in specific circumstances.

But the mind-linked are having plural experiences. They have someone else feeling their emotions, hearing their thoughts. It's very similar to sharing your mind with headmates. As this connection grows, they may end up becoming...

The Multiple Hivemind

At the top most point of the horseshoe, all mental barriers have been torn down.

They're still multiple people. They still have their own individual identities. But the link has become so great that they can read each other's thoughts whenever they want. They can share memories and skills freely between them, being both multiple and completely connected at the same time.

The Median Hivemind

Having achieved perfect connection, identity starts to erode. The median hivemind starts becoming its own collective identity.

Individuals in the median hivemind still retain agency and sense of self, but are also blending together more now and feel less like separate people.

The True Hivemind

At this point, there is no distinction between identity of the members. The hivemind is now one singlet spread across multiple bodies. A contrast and opposite to traditional plurality, which is multiple agents in one body.

...

We Can Get Weird With This...

Okay, that's a basic overview of how hiveminds work and evolve with singlets. But... what if some members of the hivemind aren't singlets?

Now things are going to get weird because hiveminds and mental links enable a lot of peculiar things that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

What if an old headmate goes dormant for years. In that time, the system becomes linked to a hivemind and specifically become either a median or true hivemind where they all identify as the same thing? What if that headmate comes back to find everyone else in the system is part of this hivemind with their identities melded into it, but the new headmate is still separate?

Or what if a multiple hivemind enabled headmates originating in the same body to front in multiple bodies at once, essentially allowing system hopping as a thing in those specific circumstances? What one of the members of an in-sys relationship used someone else's body (consensually) to be with their partner?

Or what if, for whatever reason, only one member of the system had the connection to the hivemind while the rest didn't?

Or... imagine that there are two systems with a strong mental link. They become a multiple hivemind with headmates able to speak freely to each other and even share an inner world. Then two headmates, one from each system, interact more and end up fusing. What does this mean? Which body is theirs? What happens if the link is severed?

Or in the same vein, what if a hivemind starts out as existing between 5 singlets? They become connected and end up being a multiple hivemind, and share an inner world. What if the hivemind created a tulpa together in this inner world, and none of the members are sure whose tulpa it actually counts as?

...

Anyway, if there's any takeaway from this, it should be that plurality is weird. Hiveminds are weird. And put them together and you get a weird sandwich. 😁

[langernameohnebedeutung]

we are well over a decade past that point but that's also precisely why (overton window) i feel the need to say - - - for people in a modern democracy to vote signature red hats with a slogan on it like some sort of uniform/group identifier is plenty fucking weird.

[pluralquotebook]

(♠️ has a crush on a character named Taco. They're terrified of her showing up because of that)

Summon c00lkidd ~🖋️

NO. He's like 10 ~♠️

*silence*

Summon Taco ~🖋️

DON'T YOU DARE ~♠️

~Hivemind System

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[spaceistheplaceart]

the vortigaunt had a LOT of dialogue and it was VERY interesting so i just kept talking to him until it all ran out but the NPCs kept FUCKING INTERRUPTING ME when i was just trying to speak to my wonderful vort friend.

[ethereal-occultist]

It is simultaneously the best and the worst thing ever to be a fan of Hivemind bc no one finds them funny except fans of Hivemind. And they have said this themselves. I want to share their videos but no one finds them funny except for me. But also I feel superior because I find them funny.

[spotsupstuff]

takin a break from asks a lil with misc. oc stuff + some ideas for iterator cleaner fauna. cuz there just ain't enough of variety in those structures yet n i've been thinkin about cleaning methods of the insides for ages now

[canonicallyplural]

Would hiveminds count?

Should they?

The relationship between hiveminds and multiplicity is complicated to say the least.

There's a post here that classifies hiveminds in terms of multiplicity...

The basic idea with this theory is that there are certain hiveminds made up of multiple distinct individuals with their own independent thoughts.

If the definition of plurality is having multiple people in one body, it could be argued that each of these bodies contains "multiple people" in it. This could technically be plural.

But then there are the "true hiveminds" where there is only one singular self that simply operates multiple bodies. These ones feel pretty clearly like a singlet to me.

So what do we think?

[psychomusic]

i don't understand when people criticize george lucas. he gave us ten thousand clones of TEMUERA MORRISON

[pandagobrr]

Who Broke It?

Prism: So... who broke it? I'm not mad. I just want to know.

Ollie: I did. I broke-

Prism: No, no you didn't. Hivemind?

Hivemind: Don't look at me. Look at Charlie.

Charlie: What? I didn't break it.

Hivemind: Huh. That's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Charlie: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Hivemind: [leans in on him] Suspicious.

Reginald: If it matters - probably not - but Juniper was the last one to use it.

Juniper: Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Reginald: Oh, really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Juniper: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles; everyone knows that, Reggie!

Ollie: Ok, ok! Let’s not fight! I broke it, let me pay for it, Rox!

Prism: No! Who broke it??!

Juniper: Prism... Phoenix has been awfully quiet.

Phoenix: REALLY??

Juniper: Yeah! Really.

Phoenix: THE ONE TIME-

Prism (stepping away and facing the camera): I broke it. It burned my hand, so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with war paint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

[torchickentacos]

I promise I’m not bitchy vagueposting, I just saw a popular writing advice post from a writing blog and it spurred this on- but I find it so funny when people are like “how do I write/depict [x] without offending [group]?” because in my experience within various groups/demographics, we don’t even agree with each other on stuff like that half the time 😭

[tsuchiiinoko]

mister riley john savage