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- Subject: Hive aliens
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- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:57:57 GMT
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- Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada
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- If you consider a civilization built on a hive organizational structure, it
- would contain many advantages and survival traits that human society just
- doesnt have.
- A hive is extremely organized. Though human civilization is
- organized to an extent in local areas, we lack the global organization
- that would allow us to coordinate the worlds resources, and lower the
- the chance of self destruction. Aspects of our civilization such as
- crime, poverty, and war (just to name a few ugly ones) would be non-
- existent in a hive.
- Whether technology would increase at a greater or lesser rate then
- humans have shown is up to debate. In a hive, every being has its
- place, therefore a certain amount of the hives energy would be
- allocated toward technological growth. Scientific advancement
- (generally linked to technology) would be determined at a priority
- level in the hive. This could be a high priority or low one depending
- on the hives current status. ie. At war with another hive, food,
- etc.... Human civilization has free enterprise in operation in a
- good percentage of the world which is an excellent catalyst for
- technological advancement (Ive got a color TV! Ha! Ha!).
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- A functional society is something that man has had to work for
- for thousands of years, while it would come instinctively for a hive
- race, leaving its energies to other activities, including space travel.
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- An intellingent hive race could conceivable develop at a much faster
- rate then one composed of social groups. If ever a dominant hive
- emerged on a planet with no competition, then it could conceivably
- reach a high level of technology in a relative short period of time
- (Assuming around human intelligence.) If you consider how much of the
- worlds resources have gone towards war, this becomes clear. You could
- say that many technologies have been created as a result of war, but
- it still pales in comparrison to the amount of technology that could
- have been developed without having to worry about becoming extinct.
- (Vast amount of the planets resources used in other areas)
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- A hive however has a very few number of thinking individuals.
- The workers of the hive may be just as intelligent (if not more)
- as a human, but if their eneriges are being used for hive activities
- that are determined by another intelligence, then the worker is nothing
- more than an extension of the 'boss'. Similar to computers here. Sure
- they can do alot of things that humans cant, but without the human,
- they can do nothing. So if the primary intelligence of the hive stops
- growing, so does the hive.
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- This is just a few possible features that could be possessed by an
- intelligent hive race. The hive race would possess many valuble
- survival traits instinctivley that humans have to work at.
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- But in the long run, would a hive society be better off than a
- civilization that had free thinking individuals? Certainly in the
- short term it would. But a free thinking society would almost certainly
- advance faster in the long run because of the shear number of minds
- that contribute to society, compared to the relatively small number
- that contribute in a hive. What the hive gives up in free thinking,
- it gains in organization. What humans give up in organization, they
- gain in free thinking individuals.
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- Once a civilization has conquered its organizational challenges, it
- is free to pursue other goals. The Hive gets a head start here. But
- when the free thinking individuals finally get together (It hasnt
- happened on Earth yet) the power of billions of minds at work would
- really start to take off.
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