| 1930 W. O. Stapledon Last and First Men viii. 168
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The Martians, it should be noted, had three possible forms, or formations, namely: first, an ‘open order’ of independent and very tenuous cloudlets in ‘telepathic’ communication, and often in strict unity as a group mind; second, a more concentrated and less vulnerable corporate cloud; and third, an extremely concentrated and formidable cloud-jelly.
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| 1982 I. Asimov Foundation's Edge 302
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And, I take it, the group mind, so to speak, of the group consciousness is much stronger than an individual mind, just as a muscle is much stronger than an individual muscle cell.
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| 1986 C. Sheffield Nimrod Hunt xxix. 367
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Chan was within the Bahram group mind; but this time, for the first time, he retained some elements of individual consciousness.
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| 1990 Thrust Winter 6/3
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When they join together in an eightfold group-mind, a higher consciousness submerges their individual identities.
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| 1993 G. Bear Moving Mars 122
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So what happens if the entire Earth links up and we deal with a group mind? Why should that increase their need for resources?
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| 1996 W. Shatner Return xxxii. 244
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He was not inclined to encourage it to change its groupmind.
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| 1999 J. Haldeman Forever Free 88
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But their group mind hooked up with the Tauran group mind, and the Taurans said absolutely no. It was too dangerous—not to us, but to them.
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| 2001 Locus June 25/2
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The back story informs us that‥the obsessively tidy group-mind lifeforms known as Auditors‥began to meddle in human affairs.
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