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:
“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind—the mind of a fighter—in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)