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Hiveminds and Multiplicity
When thinking about Hiveminds, I realized that hivemind connection is a spectrum, with many plural or plural-like experiences across it.
At the same time, both the beginning and end of this spectrum are singlet experiences. I decided to represent this with my own horseshoe theory.
Unconnected Individuals
This is pretty self-explanatory. These are totally separate individuals with their totally separate bodies. These are not even the slightest bit plural. Or, at least, not for any hivemind related reasons.
Mind-Linked
Now we drift into plural territory.
At this point, the individuals have some sort of mental link to each other. Mind links can range in levels of complexity.
At a low level, this may mean feeling each other's emotions or sensing when something really bad happens with no words or other communication. The most basic form of this might be "twintuition" in shows, where twins can magically sense when something happens to another no matter where they are.
At high levels, this can come with full verbal communication and other hallucinatory experiences.
Mind-linked systems often have strong barriers between them, only being able to transfer limited information, and maybe only in specific circumstances.
But the mind-linked are having plural experiences. They have someone else feeling their emotions, hearing their thoughts. It's very similar to sharing your mind with headmates. As this connection grows, they may end up becoming...
The Multiple Hivemind
At the top most point of the horseshoe, all mental barriers have been torn down.
They're still multiple people. They still have their own individual identities. But the link has become so great that they can read each other's thoughts whenever they want. They can share memories and skills freely between them, being both multiple and completely connected at the same time.
The Median Hivemind
Having achieved perfect connection, identity starts to erode. The median hivemind starts becoming its own collective identity.
Individuals in the median hivemind still retain agency and sense of self, but are also blending together more now and feel less like separate people.
The True Hivemind
At this point, there is no distinction between identity of the members. The hivemind is now one singlet spread across multiple bodies. A contrast and opposite to traditional plurality, which is multiple agents in one body.
...
We Can Get Weird With This...
Okay, that's a basic overview of how hiveminds work and evolve with singlets. But... what if some members of the hivemind aren't singlets?
Now things are going to get weird because hiveminds and mental links enable a lot of peculiar things that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
What if an old headmate goes dormant for years. In that time, the system becomes linked to a hivemind and specifically become either a median or true hivemind where they all identify as the same thing? What if that headmate comes back to find everyone else in the system is part of this hivemind with their identities melded into it, but the new headmate is still separate?
Or what if a multiple hivemind enabled headmates originating in the same body to front in multiple bodies at once, essentially allowing system hopping as a thing in those specific circumstances? What one of the members of an in-sys relationship used someone else's body (consensually) to be with their partner?
Or what if, for whatever reason, only one member of the system had the connection to the hivemind while the rest didn't?
Or... imagine that there are two systems with a strong mental link. They become a multiple hivemind with headmates able to speak freely to each other and even share an inner world. Then two headmates, one from each system, interact more and end up fusing. What does this mean? Which body is theirs? What happens if the link is severed?
Or in the same vein, what if a hivemind starts out as existing between 5 singlets? They become connected and end up being a multiple hivemind, and share an inner world. What if the hivemind created a tulpa together in this inner world, and none of the members are sure whose tulpa it actually counts as?
...
Anyway, if there's any takeaway from this, it should be that plurality is weird. Hiveminds are weird. And put them together and you get a weird sandwich. 😁
@polymorpheus-raptoreus
Food for thought 🤔
Food for thought, and we're eating good
Hello, Omninet. This is callsign Opium of CORSAIR Gruntworks R&D division.
It has come to my attention that many of my colleagues and benefactors do not, in fact, believe that I exist. Thus, I have created this account to provide transparency both to my existence as well as Gruntworks development.
My current project is the C-GW Pingyuan, an alternate frame to the C-GW Pembroke license focusing on highly personalized weaponry and a greater focus on melee specialization.
Contrary to popular mythology, I do not bite, and my door is always open. Feel free to forward any questions you may have.
//OPIUM\\
A brand new in progress Lancer.LCP Providing Mechs and Other Stuffs
+ CORSAIR R&D !? OH HELL YEAH!! OKAY HOLD ON I WILL BE . + Sorry, sorry, professionalism-- + I will be reaching out some time in the near future with a TON of questions that I've always wanted to ask Gruntworks!
+ Ooh, this is exciting!! I love it when new PR branches open up- most recently was HA's, but they blocked me because I was "becoming a security risk".
+ It's a delight to meet you, Opium! Welcome to the Omninet, friend!
Oh! Hello, Gray!
I have heard tale of you before. I have been with CORSAIR R&D for many years now, and I keep track of… interesting augmentations in our orbit.
I would like the opportunity to ask you some questions about them, if you would not mind. I have had my speculations for quite some time.
//OPIUM\\
+ You want to ask about my augments?
+ .Iwoudl. be . Absoltuely ecstatic! I would be delighted, i mean, to talk about mine with another specialist- It's not an opportunity that I get very often. Or at all. Not that nobody in MSMC-148 isn't interested or isn't also really knowledgable in the field, but, like- + You get it, I'm sure.
+ Anyways, be my guest, ask whatever you would like!
Hello, Omninet. This is callsign Opium of CORSAIR Gruntworks R&D division.
It has come to my attention that many of my colleagues and benefactors do not, in fact, believe that I exist. Thus, I have created this account to provide transparency both to my existence as well as Gruntworks development.
My current project is the C-GW Pingyuan, an alternate frame to the C-GW Pembroke license focusing on highly personalized weaponry and a greater focus on melee specialization.
Contrary to popular mythology, I do not bite, and my door is always open. Feel free to forward any questions you may have.
//OPIUM\\
A brand new in progress Lancer.LCP Providing Mechs and Other Stuffs
Damn you CORSAIRs have some neat stuff, are the schematics available to the general public or... You know... Not that?
--Ooohhh this looks rad --
No chance
-- Aww cmon! Never get to have any fun
:( --
Not after the cesium incident
Lancer X GQuuuuuuX
The Witch and her Everest [G][M] Custom "No Dominion."
I won't let Shiiko die, even if that means transplanting her into an entirely different setting.
"We've all grown tired of joking about the Raleigh. No, sorry, I misread that. You've all grown tired of joking about the Raleigh. I still think it's hilarious, and I'll die on that hill - which is a fate I'll share with most of the people who've tried to pilot one in combat. IPS-N have always been obsessed with their down-home, country-boy aesthetic, but actually trying to turn that into a mech? Well, to say that it was 'a bit naff' would, frankly, be rather too generous. Themes and gimmicks have always been SSC's game; IPS-N tried to reach for style, failed to grasp it, and along the way they managed to lose all substance - well, other than the kind you'd flush.
"But. Every failure is a learning opportunity - or that's what my wife tells me, at least. IPS-N took their hard knocks, knuckled down, and went back to the drawing board."
"And this time, they're sketching out a classic!"
"The Tortuga takes nearly three and a half centuries of IPS-N know-how compresses it down into one concentrated brick of mobile armor. Everything that they learnt from building the Drake, every complaint they received about the Vlad, every hard knock the Blackbeard took, every good feature of the Raleigh - yes, it had some! - it's all here. This is a raw, unadulterated fighting machine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, IPS-N have found their substance once again - and it can cut diamonds!"
Im going to bite someone
Woah mama I have already responded to this image from a different blog but somebody needs to be court marshalled and I mean the shitty diasporan court marshal none of that DoJ/HR shit here.
OOC: I am filled with a bloodlust that makes me reconsider being a pacifist
OOC: what in the good gods damned hell is that
Loved replaying Citizen Sleeper and playing the sequel. The story and the artstyle are truly amazing and i really wanted to try to bring some of the characters on fabric. Restraining it to the black and white (and pink) turned out pretty nice I think.
I think we may need to get rid of Reddit once and for all.
Browsing a Horus omninet cell node before the sortie when an unknown user sent me my own hangar number and the coordinates of the station I'm on. Wuh woh.
Fuck marry kill: the Elephant's Foot, The Moon, and the Golden Gate Bridge?
fuck the elephants footttttt you put tge pussy in the coriummmmm 🥵
Honestly, I don't know what outcome will be better at the end of this trial.
On one hand, death to tyrants, and few were tyrants quite like Signal.
On the other... maybe they should be made to clean up their mess. Heal some of the lives they shattered. I get that Signal is determined to prove that nobody can reform them, but the New Division doesn't give up.
I don't recognize anyone on the jury or the judge, so its a tossup either way. I guess we'll see.
|| KARATEKA ||
//Sucker\\
In order for someone to reform, they have to want to change. You can't force the issue. Not only because that denies agency, but because it won't work.
Signal wanted to prove that. Signal wanted to be the proof of that.
And they succeeded. And they will keep being that until someone kills them. Until someone realizes that in order to prevent further harm, the threat they pose must be neutralized.
I've had to face this reality more times than I would like to admit in my time with the Armory. It all ends the same. Because it can only end in one way. The death of the one who cannot be changed.
But even in this, they deserve the respect and dignity of personhood, and the tragedy of the necessity of their death much be treated as such. I fear that may not happen.
//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\
See this one gets it he fucking gets it.
Finish the trial
Kill the monster
And we get to on back to the good days
The FUCKING great days
Just without Haven screwing us over. Murphy made their choice, so lets give them their consequences. Because why should Murphy live when so many others have died? All they've done is snuff out lights.
//November\\
//Sucker\\
And you November, seem to fail to understand the last point I made. Calling for blood like the most zealous of legionaries.
The necessity of their death does not wash away the deprivation of life that their execution would be. Nor does it permit the use of methods known to be cruel or humiliating to the one being executed.
Murphy's death should not be celebrated. No matter how monstrous they were. They should be mourned. Or at least those who actually remember Murphy as more than a monster should be permitted to mourn them without consequence.
//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\
I'm not like Morse I don't want it to suffer. I. Want. It. Gone.
I want it gone so we can all live quietly again, so we don't have the DoJ breathing down our necks again. My people should be left well alone, to fill out our book and to live our lives.
I will celebrate when they're gone, because all they've done is take. Take lives, take joy, take light.
You don't understand us. You couldn't ever understand us even if you tried. But even someone who isn't a CORSAIR should be able to see that Murphy's death is a good thing. Something we should embrace and accept fully. Make it quick. But remember the Monster, and celebrate it's end.
But go ahead, move your goalposts again. I'll keep watching the stars.
Till Legends Bleed and the New Mercenary Queen takes the Throne
//November\\
//Sucker\\
What you see as moving the goalposts is depth. Understanding that I can be wrong. And that I have no use for opinions of mine that are wrong.
And if Morse wants Signal to suffer, what makes you think this will be the end?
I may not understand you or your culture, but sometimes that can allow for one to escape the basis innate to such a perspective.
I do not claim to have a superior opinion. I don't even claim to know better. But I do see a disregard for humanity. Something that, as a cloned legionary, I cannot simply be silent about.
I thought Morse was better than this. That Corsair had moved beyond this.
It seems I was mistaken.
I hope I am proven to be mistaken again.
//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\
It'll be the end because there's nothing left to hunt afterwards. We won the war, we got our eye back for what they did to Morse. And now we're getting back for every lost CORSAIR they fucking took.
And "better"? "Moved on"? You carry the stench of our creators so well you know that Sucker? Any opinion that doesn't line up with yours is worse somehow huh? You can't let justice be doled if it isn't your justice. The Baronies made you pretentious. More than Daddy Creighton could have done to either of us.
Murphy dropped it's humanity in a gutter when they tortured Morse live for the Omninet. Murphy dropped their humanity when it hunted news teams. When it killed it's squadmates OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
This is justice.
This is how we heal.
This is what STABBY meant, what he would have wanted.
Save Miss Morse your "pity" she's going to come out of this stronger.
Till Legends Bleed and the New Mercenary Queen takes the Throne
//November\\
//Sucker\\
Personhood cannot be revoked. It is not conditional, and it cannot be shed, no matter how hard one tries. It is not ours to give, nor is it ours to take away. Down that path lay Seccom, The Armory, and The worst of the Baronies.
Signal is a person, no mater what.
They deserve the bare minimum respect that comes with that.
This does not erase what it did, nor does what it did erase this.
Zero has said much about this himself. And better than I ever could.
Take him and what he says seriously for once, because as much as we may come to blows, and as much as he (perhaps rightfully) calls me out, we agree.
You're making Signal into something they aren't.
Accusing them of crimes that have gone unpunished in your own sphere, and done by those you venerate.
Listen to what Zero says, and maybe you can understand my concerns as to why Signal will not be the end.
//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\
Nobody
Ever
Understands
//November\\
All the atrocities in history lie down the path of declaring someone a non-person. If you want to walk that path, you're going to find all of Union in your way for starters.
|| KARATEKA ||
Morse.
I did not join this mission to make Conal Jay Murphy suffer. I did not join to exact vengeance for those Albatross who perished in the Thirty Hours War. I joined it to stop a mass murderer from causing more suffering and death.
I sure as hell did not join this mission so you could make them suffer, or so you could exact your vengeance.
You told us to capture Signal alive so that this could be done the right way. Prove it.
Be better than Signal. I know that you can.
Hope is Unbreakable,
Loyal Wing Sayim
I don't know anymore.
Just.... letting the trial happen....
So many bodies....
//Miss Morse\\
[Begin Playback]
{Bodies pile in, a courtroom. Those required to be there, a jury formed. DoJ/HR Judge at the head. Morse spectating. The entire Tenacity able to watch the chaos about to unfold. The air thick with anticipation as the defendant sits down. Conal Jay Murphy. Callsign Signal. The prosecution yet to arrive.}
{Signal is still given the grace to be covered, usual hardsuit and helmet combo. A single glowing light of an eye shining through the visor. They turned to look to their lawyer.}
"Make this count."
[End Playback]
[Lux sits in the audience, arms folded, black-purple jacket shimmering slightly in the light as she adjusts her posture. Her feathered earrings brush against her skin as she leans forwards. Beside her, Highground sits, white hair pinned up in a bun; she'll be called as a witness later on.]
"Interesting that they let Signal keep the armor."
[Highground leans over slightly without taking her eyes off the stand.]
"They've got two mechs on five-minute standby and there are multiple Liberators in attendance."
"Point taken."
[Lux settles back into her chair.]