Re: Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people.
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If you assume a person has a sphere of influence, a group mind is a definitive possibility as the group behavior can spread and strengthen specific ideas.
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Minds are influenced by all sorts of inputs including inputs gernerated by other minds. That's not a group mind is just a group of minds.
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And a mind is a result of the building blocks that make up our bodies and and what affects them, but we still call it a mind and not a group of building blocks and what affects them.
It is not always useful - nor necessary - to separate terms just because we know what their individual composition is. Groupthinking is a very distinct feature of certain human behaviors for example, and thus looking at the group as a whole can be useful.
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