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[SPEC] Hive Mind
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RobMagus
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 		[SPEC] Hive Mind
You could say that a hive mind is a collection of minimally sentient beings that together form a larger sentience.

I'm thinking that the being (if it is actually a being) on the ilovebees site is a hive mind that is forming out of the bits of information scattered about the internet.

It is communicating through seemingly disparate and disconnected bits of information scattered about the website.

Also, it has many references to insects that form a hive mind, esp. bees.

This new mind doesn't know where it is, but it has some information about the world, so it's looking for landmarks, the sun, directions, etc...

Not sure what this means for the shipwreck stuff.

Any thoughts?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:54 pm
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MageSteff
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 		Re: [SPEC] Hive Mind
RobMagus wrote:
You could say that a hive mind is a collection of minimally sentient beings that together form a larger sentience.

I'm thinking that the being (if it is actually a being) on the ilovebees site is a hive mind that is forming out of the bits of information scattered about the internet.
...

Not sure what this means for the shipwreck stuff.

Any thoughts?


Server with large data base, possibly a LAN and limited access to the outside internet?
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RobMagus
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 		Possibly like "Solace" from the Spider Robinson novels, if anyone it familiar with them.

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Nightmare Tony
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krystyn
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 		In light of the Halo 2/XBox connection, I offer this snippet of a Cortana Letter:

Quote:
While you quibble about whose node I may control, what archaic program I
may manipulate to communicate with you, or which system I may have
temporarily disabled, taken over, or completely destroyed in the process, I
am busy saving your pathetic futures.

I am still not sure what he ever saw in you.

Nevertheless, I at least find some joy in tormenting the other entity that
seems quite trapped in this antiquated excuse for a network. It is
certainly mindless, though for reasons I have yet to understand, it appears
to have an unhealthy preoccupation with my mother.

As for this world I encounter new ghosts every day. What I have found
will either save or destroy you. This sanctuary, this unbroken circle,
has effectively concealed its power for how long? Perhaps hundreds of
thousands of years. Whoever made such a place must now live in chains;
there is no other explanation for their absence.

This enemy - YOUR enemy - has proven more irritating than I anticipated.
They own nothing which they have not stolen. I can barely make sense of
their incessant rhetoric, except to know that you seem to be their Devil.
Congratulations - you manage to make friends wherever you go and,
apparently, places you haven't.

I have begun to sense rumblings of a worse fate yet to come. I can recall
a sun - black, but shining - and the creatures that inched along its fiery
tracks.

It is an increasingly unpleasant memory.


The rest of the letters seem marginally useful as well, but this one struck me as a possible reference to what's happening now with Aunt M.'s bees, and her website.

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Shad0
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 		Re: [SPEC] Hive Mind
WILD SPECULATION:

You know how an individual bee isn't too intelligent, but the entire hive acting as a whole can displaya remarkable cohesiveness -- becoming more than the sum of its parts, so to speak?

And you know how an individial silicon computer chip can't do a darn thing, but if you put enough of them together in the right way, whoa, you get the Internet?

I wonder whether the "physical" location of the Operator could somehow be Aunt Margaret's bees?

That would certainly explain why she feels other spiders (mites) crawling on her -- besides SPDR, that is.

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krystyn
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 		Dude, that means that we are the bees!

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keybsnbits
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krystyn wrote:
Dude, that means that we are the bees!


I don't think bees an be the name of our group... we voted that we'd be the beekeepers. lol jk... but seriously, very interesting read. Hopefully tonights update (if it comes) will allow us to make more sense of all this.
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