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Nov 5, 2026
Robert WrightHOST
We already had like Molt book and various and I talk about agents and I talk about loss of control.
Robert WrightHOST
In fact, I have a chapter called Hive Minds and the Loss of Control, although I didn't anticipate the specifics of this kind of scenario.
Robert WrightHOST
So I've had this weird feeling of like, wait, So I'm prescient.
Robert WrightHOST
Oh, wait.
RachelHOST
I want to get my hit.
RyanHOST
I want to get my hit of being experimented on and connecting with the hive mind, weird, goopy, weird nonsense.
RyanHOST
Yeah, this was one of my least favorite parts of the book, was all of the dreamer, techno-babbly, weird sci-fi stuff.
RyanHOST
It feels
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RyanHOST
Like when he does resurrect and when he does come back, he has all of these amazing powers, but you're always told how frail he looks, how vulnerable he is.
RyanHOST
And he brings up like why the previous group didn't make it was they had these sensitive little bodies.
RyanHOST
Like they were this joined hive mind thing, but they were these sensitive little frail things while us with our, with our bodies, uh, with their mind, combine it together, we'll be better than that.
RyanHOST
And it's like he himself is always described as like his hair's thinning out and his feet and all of...
WesHammerHOST
All Tyranids are technically the same organism.
WesHammerHOST
And although we may see different variations in them from the tiny minuscule ripper swarms to the massive hierophant biotitans, they are all controlled by an impossible intelligence known as the hive mind.
WesHammerHOST
Now the Hivemind is a super mysterious god-like entity that exists outside of the borders of our galaxy.
WesHammerHOST
We've not really been able to study it and we do not really know much about its objectives.
WesHammerHOST
It is seemingly able to control quintillions of Tyranids simultaneously, able to synchronize hyper-advanced combat strategies and maneuvers across a million battlefields at once.
WesHammerHOST
It would be like having the world's best StarCraft player simultaneously playing a million matches of StarCraft.
WesHammerHOST
Now, even the most advanced supercomputers on the planet do not even come close to what the hive mind is capable of.
WesHammerHOST
And if the rumors are to be believed, then all of the Tyranids within our galaxy are simply scouts, as it is believed that all of our neighboring galaxies have already been consumed by the Tyranids, or at the very least, they're in the exact same boat we find ourselves in.
AdamHOST
It turns out it's actually a synthetically created one, right? I don't think you're quite aware of this yet.
AdamHOST
So you've been convinced through what you think is talking to Nicole that you need to return that to get the hive mind, you know, basically the...
AustinHOST
Yeah, I'd probably be the Borg.
AustinHOST
Yeah, it's your kind of
AdamHOST
planet
JeffGUEST
until the mining corporation realized that it was very mineral rich and okay So this is where it all starts getting real convoluted.
JeffGUEST
I'm not quite sure if the hive mind wants you to bring the...
JeffGUEST
I guess the hive mind, that is a real thing.
Peter WattsGUEST
tautologies are tautologies.
BrianHOST
Um, so, uh, kind of on the same thing, you, you go into hive minds a lot and I find that really fascinating because the only hive mind I can think of is, is something like, uh, uh, ant hive or ant colony or a beehive or something like that, where it's all pheromone based and it's fairly slow.
BrianHOST
And I don't expect they're actually sharing consciousness.
BrianHOST
Cause I think there's like a 300 millisecond delay or something that you have to have for consciousness to coalesce.
BrianHOST
So I'm kind of curious, like when you envision a hive mind, do you envision like in your books that all these things, all the people disappear and become one large computing device? Or is it one individual that forms at the end of that?
Peter WattsGUEST
Okay.
Peter WattsGUEST
The awesome thing here is when you started talking about hive minds, you started echoing me, Kent.
Peter WattsGUEST
It was like you were speaking with multiple voices.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
Cierello's final entries circle around without landing on directly, the hypothesis too large and too terrible for the clinical language she has been maintaining throughout to fully contain.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
She calls it the Hive Mind.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
The term appears in the final three entries, each time with a qualifier that diminishes.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
The first time, what might be described as, the second time, what I am now confident is... and the third time simply without qualification, as a fact.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
The Hive Mind.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
The Hive Mind is the aggregate intelligence formed from the collective neural tissue of all the necromorphs in a marker's influence zone.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
A distributed consciousness that has no physical center, no single location, no organ that constitutes its seat.
Greg MargueriteNARRATOR
It is everywhere the necromorphs are, and it is nowhere that can be targeted by removing one node, or ten, or a hundred.
Michael SallaHOST
But in what way is that at odds with this kind of like mastery of the eighth force that you're talking about, Michael?
MichaelGUEST
I think that what we need to do as a civilization is to be very weary going forward because there are forces out there that are right now trying to convert the human being into a hive mind being, meaning chips being.
MichaelGUEST
In our brain, if they're able to do something to take out, say, 80% of the population and the other 20% get chips and it's all fed with AI and everything else, we are at a danger of becoming a hive mind society.
MichaelGUEST
And I think we need to be careful going forward with the technology.
MichaelGUEST
The
JPGUEST
exactly.
JPGUEST
we don't want that
MichaelGUEST
happening the greys are hive mind and there's a lot of theories that suggest that they're from that's us from the future
Phil GreenHOST
So, this is one of my favourite ones.
Phil GreenHOST
So, mind control, DNA manipulation and the hive mind.
Phil GreenHOST
The alleged ability of black goo to influence human consciousness is central to the conspiracy's more disturbing claims.
Phil GreenHOST
According to believers, microscopic quantities of the substance could enter the body through physical contact, inhalation or ingestion, like you were talking about.
Phil GreenHOST
eventually interacting with the nervous system.
Phil GreenHOST
Once inside, the material is supposedly able to respond to electromagnetic signals, modify neurological activity, and influence emotions, memories, or behavior.
Phil GreenHOST
Some theories suggest that exposure could make individuals more aggressive, obedient, or emotionally detached, while others believe it could connect humans to a collective intelligence resembling a technological hive mind.
Phil GreenHOST
More extreme versions propose that the substance can rewrite DNA, creating biological changes that would eventually transform human race into a hybrid species.
TomGUEST
And in spite of himself, I think Chester is starting to come around to Missy's way of thinking about things.
TomGUEST
Having just seen what he's seen, Hivemind is a really good description.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
I mean, think about it.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
Human Optimization Group.
JamesHOST
The Sorcerer Kings absorb the vitality of the land to fuel their unnatural longevity.
JamesHOST
The Monarch's authority is tied directly to the health of the Hive Mind, and the ruler works like a central hub of a massive psychic network.
JamesHOST
That network coordinates millions of individual lives toward a single purpose.
JamesHOST
The total survival and expansion of this empire.
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