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The theory of consciousness that asserts that a new and better personality [[Emergence|emerges]] from the networked personalities of those in the organisation and generates ideas that are, therefore, not traceable to any particular individual mind in the hive. | The theory of consciousness that asserts that a new and better personality [[Emergence|emerges]] from the networked personalities of those in the organisation and generates ideas that are, therefore, not traceable to any particular individual mind in the hive. | ||
The theory seems nice, and accords with evolution and so on, but it is often quite hard to identify any such | The theory seems nice, and accords with evolution and so on, but it is often quite hard to identify any such [[emergent]]ly brilliant ideas, since the first thing that anyone will do should they stumble on a brilliant idea that has formed unbidden out of the collective is to claim credit for it. | ||
What we are left with, therefore is a welter of transparently preposterous ideas that emerge | What we are left with, therefore is a welter of transparently ''preposterous'' ideas that emerge from the hive mind without ''anyone'' claiming credit for them. | ||
[[Debt value adjustment|Debt value adjustments]]. [[Enron Corporation|Mark-to-market accounting for non-existent forward markets]]. [[Performance appraisal|Performance appraisals]]. [[Goals|SMART]] goals. [[Non-fungible token]] | [[Debt value adjustment|Debt value adjustments]]. [[Enron Corporation|Mark-to-market accounting for non-existent forward markets]]. [[Performance appraisal|Performance appraisals]]. [[Goals|SMART]] goals. [[Non-fungible token]]s. [[Environmental, social, and corporate governance]]. | ||
These ideas will persist and flourish as long as plausible livelihoods can be made out of them, but they have a habit of imploding, catastrophically. Here is where the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a super-brain, '' | These ideas will persist and flourish as long as plausible livelihoods can be made out of them, but they have a habit of imploding, catastrophically and without warning. Here is where the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a super-brain, these bad ideas ''are no-one’s fault''. | ||
In vain will regulators, auditors, and prosecutors look culprits among the dazed staff, stumbling around outside the building clutching [[Iron Mountain box|Iron Mountain boxes]]. | In vain will regulators, auditors, and prosecutors look for culprits among the dazed staff, stumbling around outside the building clutching [[Iron Mountain box|Iron Mountain boxes]]. | ||
===The exploding whale=== | ===The exploding whale=== | ||