Aesiron would be dementia.
Panda would be sexual arousal.
Kn*ckers would be lucid dreaming.
Tars, Carni, and several others would be our base desires.
I would be the spark of genius. (Did I spell that right, Viva?)
Speaking of a hive mind, where is Speaker for the Dead or Ender?
No, you wouldn’t. 
If you looked through Seven’s eyes at her own mirror image, you would see her beauty or nakedness as she would: totally irrelevant.
Now, if you could link to Chakotays mind as he would see Seven in the privacy of his own quarters, then you would be right.
But I don’t think every drone in the Hive Mind would be able to see what everybody else sees; no brain would have enough capacity. Massive dizziness and nausea would ensue, and every Cube would crash into the nearest object.
NoClueBoy, great! In your comparison, what Doper would be the annoying song you can’t get out of your head?
NoClueBoy;
What are you doing, casting a remake of Herman’s Head from the Board?
So, what happens when a Doper gets separated from the collective? Does s/he get all wigged out and stuff?
And when do I get my cool cybertronic implants? (Not THAT kind of implants!)
Yo! I might not be the song itself, but I can certainly supply it.
Now Playing: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Next Up: The 1812 Overture
NoClueBoy, when I read your first post I thought you were making a deliciously clever play on words, since the tv show “Have Gun, Will Travel” had as one of its writers Gene Roddenberry (yes, that Gene Roddenberry!). Too bad your follow-up post had to ruin it for me.
(lagniappe: the tv show was already airing a year before Heinlein’s story was published in 1958)
Oh, shit. Now the 1812 Overture really is in my head. Thanks a lot.
I see your 1812 and raise you a William Tell Overture.
Their minds are all jacked into the Matrix, living the same dream day in and day out. What you’re describing is the easy part, just loading up a program with all the appropriate elements from an experience database.
I’m hijacking my own thread here, but who cares. My point is there cannot logically be a common experience database in the Matrix! ! Daddy, under the illusion of free will, has put the virtual camping gear up the virtual attic.
The common database has to store that fact and upload it to Mommy. So she can get the virtual camping gear from the virtual attic at the start of the virtual summer holiday, instead of coming out of the barn with them. Mommy sees Daddy walking around the house and her own face in the mirror. Daddy sees vice versa. Now do they both have the same Matrix-programme? If it has to be adjusted to fit each person, the adjustments neccesary for each person would make up about 95% of the programme. And programmes would have to interact, as I described.
Now, the programme for a Hive Mind would be pretty simple and would be actually a lot like the SDMB-programming.
Some members come up with a question (“how are we going to blast this irritating Enterprise thingie, my fellow drones”) and about 20 drone experts pick up the thought and respond, all at the speed of light. (Now that speed-thing is a big difference with the SDMB, i’ll admit that)
We only work in a hive fashion when it suits us:
Random Yahoo: what are the three words that end in -gry?
SDMB: Crush! Kill! Destroy!
Random Yahoo: Hey, they don’t end in GGLLLLLAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
Gee, way to destroy my fantasy.
The Lone Ranger part or the Daffy Duck part?
Well, the Lone Ranger part’s the one that always sticks in my head, but I’ve still got 1812, so I’m immune right now… My brain’s only big enough for one repetitive melody at a time.
Just doing my duty by the Hive Mind. 
Does the Pope shit in the woods? Does any of us endure the occasional board crash without tremors and hallucinations?
Tocata and Fugue in D Minor is the best classical piece EVER
Re the Hive Mind question, it’s an interesting hypothetical. I’ve sometimes idly speculated about a similar question, to wit, rating the collective intelligence of the board. Look at GQ: Some difficult question comes along, we get some random guesses from the peanut gallery, experts whittle it down, and before long we arrive at a consensus explanation. The single individual that could accomplish the same feat is extremely rare, yet we do it, collectively, many times a day. It’s definitely a fascinating phenomenon.
I see the Overture and raise you with “It’s a Small World After All.”
Actually, yes. 
And I would be…? viva is controller–is she not? Brain and brain, what is brain?
I wondered which was first. seemed to me that RAH had chosen said title after the book was finished and decided to pun it after a popular TV show.
But, the GR info is cool.
[Dalek voice (I know, wrong show and species)] ASSIMILATE! [/Dv(Ik,wsas)]
Only the best for my fellow drones!
Of course, having started this mess, I now have Night on Bald Mountain stuck in my head. I hope you lot don’t get nightmares.
Oh, yeah… I forgot. If the Dopers represented personality traits, NCB would be obsessive compulsive disorder.