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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 an organisation and by itself generates ideas that are, therefore, not traceable to any particular individual mind in the hive.
+The theory of consciousness that asserts that a new, independent and better personality [[Emergence|emerges]] from the networked minds of those in an organisation. This new mind then generates its ''own'' ideas that are not traceable to any particular individual mind in the “hive”.
-The theory seems nice, accords with evolution and so on, but it is still hard to identify brilliant ideas that have emerged in that way, 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.
+The theory seems nice, accords with [[Evolution by natural selection|evolution]] and so on, but still — it is hard to identify any of these brilliant emergent ideas in the wild, since the first thing that anyone will do should they stumble on one is to claim credit for it.
-What we are left with, therefore is a welter of transparently ''preposterous'' ideas that have emerged from the hive mind.
+Therefore, no ''good'' ideas emerge from the hive mind. Just ''bad'' ones. What we are left with is a welter of transparently ''preposterous'' ideas that to this day lie unclaimed on the face of the collective: [[Debt value adjustment|debt value adjustments]], [[Enron Corporation|mark-to-market accounting for non-existent forward markets]], [[Performance appraisal|performance appraisals]], [[Goals|SMART]] goals, [[Crypto asset|cryptocurrencies]], [[non-fungible token]]s, and [[environmental, social, and corporate governance]].
-[[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]].
+Such poor ideas will persist and flourish as long as plausible livelihoods can be made from them, but they have a habit of imploding, catastrophically and without warning when the reality distortion field fails. Here, the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a super-brain, these bad ideas turn out to have been ''no-one’s'' idea, and therefore no-one’s ''fault''. Responsibility has been ''sublimated''. There has been a kind of [[Escalation|diffusion by escalation]].
-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 the hive mind comes into its own: as an emergent property of a super-brain, these bad ideas no one’s idea and therefore no-one’s ''fault''.
+In vain will regulators, auditors, and prosecutors look for culprits among burning wreckage, choking smoke and 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===