Timeline for Writing from a hive mind POV
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| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:13 | comment | added | bob | That’s fair. I mean “good” from the perspective of humans. FWIW using that same analogy humans would appear to be evil as viewed by cells if the latter were sentient (which is a fun thought experiment!). | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Dan Bryant | I think 'good' here is tricky and easily biased by our perspective. Being subsumed by the collective is a common dystopian trope, but imagine the analogy of your human body vs the cells making it up. The cells are expected to work for the good of the overall body (from an evolutionary sense, to help it reproduce successfully.) Individual cells are even expected to promptly commit suicide if asked to do so by the body's chemical signals. The word we use for cells that rebel and refuse the order to die is cancer. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 2:31 | comment | added | bob | I think maybe the reason for my suggestion is that I’m having trouble with the idea that this hive mind thing would really be good—it doesn’t ring true to me, at least not from the description. I’d be expecting for the twist, something like what I describe above, to provide intrigue and compelling conflict. Plus “one person trying to save the world” is a tried and true plot. Anyway just food for thought. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 2:29 | comment | added | bob | I like this. Have to say though I think the plot could be more interesting if, riffing off this answer, the plot OP describes is the setting and hero is a character having more and more frequent attacks of clarity thanks to an overactive immune system and during clear times learns that the hive mind isn’t a good thing after all (insert reasons) but now must face the Herculean task of convincing others who controlled by the hive mind are working together to help reestablish it permanently. Granted a very different sort of story, but just a thought. | |
| Aug 14, 2015 at 13:57 | vote | accept | Babika Babaka | ||
| Aug 14, 2015 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Babika Babaka | ||
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 16:48 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 16:44 | history | answered | Dan Bryant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |