How about something like "Superculture"?
Culture may be thought of as a being with ver own preferences, biases, and
motives, while also being composed of smaller, mostly myopic, beings,
although no culture is closely-knit enough to be truly sentient or
self-aware.
We could define a "Superculture" as being a culture whose constituents are
more closely interconnected, with much greater communication bandwidth
between the separate minds (such as being able to transmit actual thoughts,
rather than just ambiguous words), such that some loose group-sentience
appears, while still retaining a great deal of individual-sentience. This
would present a tangled-hierarchy, one much more intense than what exists in
a regular culture; the Culture influences the thoughts of ver constituents,
while Culture verself is influenced by the thoughts of ver constituents.
~Fidika
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From: "Ben Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 9:32 AM
Subject: [agi] Request for invention of new word
>
> Hi ,
>
> For a speculative futuristic article I'm writing (for a journal issue
edited
> by Francis Heylighen), I need a new word: a word to denote a mind that is
> halfway between an individual mind and a society of minds.
>
> Not a hive-mind, but rather a community of minds that exchange
> thoughts/ideas directly rather than thru language, and hence derive a
degree
> of synergetic mutual intelligence much greater than that achievable in a
> society of separate minds....
>
> I'm reviewing two possible future examples of such minds
>
> 1) a community of Novamente AI engines
>
> 2) a community of human minds that are enhanced with neurochips or related
> technologies and linked into a Net enabled with "Kazaa for
> thought-complex-swapping"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Also, any reference to prior ("serious" or science-fictional) developments
> of this theme?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben G
>
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