Is it humanity's destiny to evolve into hive minds?

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a long time ago single celled organisms formed cooperative ecosystems that benefited each other, and over time they permanently banded together to make multicellular organisms - losing their individuality and independence along the way.

humans have learned to band together to form communities and cities, and have found faster and faster ways to communicate and share communication. Following that trajectory, it seems like there will be a point where we have brain implants to directly share information - which overtime will be so comprehensive that can no longer function as individuals but only as the hands and feet of a collective mind
 
I don't know if you've noticed... but everybody hates everyone else with a 1% difference in opinion. There is something to be said about what can be accomplished with unity, but on top of the mentioned extreme divisiveness of modern society innovation on the human level happens because of the fact we have billions of minds that think slightly differently. You can't fault ants for not being successful for example, but their much more hive-like functions have left them relatively unchanged for as long as they've been around compared to humans who have changed our society radically and often.

Human hive mind connection wouldn't happen naturally and there is no time in the foreseeable future that anyone is going to want to do it through artificial means. There's also great irony in the fact that if it was made through artificial means it would only have been created because we weren't a hive mind.
 
I don't think so, maybe that's your prespective only and nobody would share it with you, Humanity are getting better with time and they are learning slowly from their mistakes.
 
here's another way to look at it:
1. would an army choose to link it's soldiers together? Would scientists use it to pool their knowledge? Would perverts use it to feel everyone's bodies?

2. what if you could have remote controlled drones, either mechanical or a form of force grown clone of yourself? What if you could have blank slate bespoke bodies made for you that you link to in order to multitask?
 
Most people dont understand how a hivemind actually works. In an ant hive, there isno real hierarchy, and nothing giving orders. Each ant does what it is programmed by instinct to do. But ants are simple creatures who follow predictable patterns. And if you get enough simple elements each behaving in a predictable way, you get emergent behaviour.

For example, how ants find food. Ant A and Ant B both go looking for food. They roam about at random, guided by simple senses. Both of them find food. Ant A's food source is closer. Upon finding food they leave a scent trail and immediately return to the hive. Ants smell the scent trails and follow them

Since Ant A's food source is closer, its scent trail is a little stronger. It attracts more ants. As each ant grabs food and returns to the hive it reinforces the scent trail, attracting ever more ants. Meanwhile, the scent trail by Ant B, being weaker, attracts fewer and fewer ants until it completely dwindles.

Thus, w/o any overall plan, the ants find and exploit the most efficient path to food.

In effect, the ants each function as a neuron in a brain, using chemicals instead of electrical impulses to communicate with the other 'neurons' in the brain.

This can happen in humans too, with crowd behaviors creating self reinforcing feedback loops to will drive people to do things they might consider monstrous if they were by themselves.
 
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