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Hive-Mind Alien Civilizations

Hive-mind alien civilizations are a major derived concept in alien-civilization theory. Usually framed through ideas of eusociality, collective intelligence, distributed cognition, and non-anthropocentric SETI, the concept proposes that advanced extraterrestrial societies may think and act as colony minds or superorganism-like networks rather than as civilizations built around strongly separate individuals.