The idea that humans should abandon their individuality and use technology to bind themselves together into hivemind societies seems both farfetched and frightening – something 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 claim – the axiological openness argument and the desirability argument – and then defend it against three major objections.
CITATION STYLE
Danaher, J., & Petersen, S. (2021). In Defence of the Hivemind Society. Neuroethics, 14(2), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-020-09451-7
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.