Group intellects

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 4th, 2008, 11:19 am

Group intellects: don’t go too close, or resistance will be futile… While well-behaved group minds no doubt are selective of who joins (it is after all rather intimate) and unlikely to assimilate everybody nearby, there might be applications or situations where mental firewalls are down and brains easily form group intellects. Maybe the people in the icon should all be raising their hands in the same way, but this is the clipart I found.

http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/200 ... orrow.html

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 4th, 2008, 9:15 pm

The emperor is wearing a Brooks brother three-piece suit with a Mickey Mouse lapel pin., a pink oxford button down shirt, and a Princeton cravat.

Post by **westcoast** » July 4th, 2008, 10:26 pm

neato. cool link, jt. glad to have you share your explorations.

i find the "group mind" paradigm fascinating

i like the Studio 8 group mind very much.

~westie

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 5th, 2008, 1:29 am

Thank you for this one
http://www.ubu.com/

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 5th, 2008, 2:38 pm

I got more of grope intellect these days.
Groping around in the darkness for a light switch
Group minds make me nervous
but I suppose it depends on the minds in the group
A mob is a group mind too
and our political leaders have learned so well how to manipulate the group mind.

But
Studio Eight has so many kind minds
and bottom line for me is kindness

"for as all true lovers know
true love is perfect kindness" (paraphrase Joe Campbell from memory Love and the Goddess)

even those rascals are kind

Maybe my favorite dead song

http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/AGDL/uncle.html

Post by **westcoast** » July 5th, 2008, 2:52 pm

yes, kindness is high on my list too

i once had a conversation with a group of young writers who listed things like excitement, physical attractiveness and sexual passion when discussing what a good relationship would be for them. i think after years of experience, many folks appreciate kindness with its sustaining and healing properties. just my thoughts.

another interesting post and tread, jt.

~westie

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 5th, 2008, 4:50 pm

Thanks for your kind words.

I wish I was kind.

Post by **stilltrucking** » March 5th, 2009, 11:11 pm

just for the hell of it

Post by **stilltrucking** » March 6th, 2009, 3:46 am

Speaking of Group Minds. A Happy group of women at a Neil Young Concert. It always cheers me up to see happy women

Cinnamon Girl