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In Defence of the Hivemind Society by John Danaher; Steve Petersen is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.
What is In Defence of the Hivemind Society about?
The idea that humans should abandon their individuality and use technology to bind themselves together into hivemind societies seems both farfetched and frighteningsomething that is redolent of the worst dystopias from science fiction. In this article, we argue that these common reactions to the ideal of a hivemind society are mistaken. The idea that humans could form hiveminds is sufficiently plausible for its axiological consequences to be taken seriously. Furthermore, far from being a dystopian nightmare, the hivemind society could be desirable and could enable a form of sentient flourishing. Consequently, we should not be so quick to deny it. We provide two arguments in support of this claimthe axiological openness argument and the desirability argumentand then defend it against three major objections.
Who reads In Defence of the Hivemind Society?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Neuroscience.
- Author
- John Danaher; Steve Petersen
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; Springer Science + Business Media; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1874-5490)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Neuroscience (Life Sciences)