How do Didonians make collective decisions? They cannot confer, then vote, simultaneously because many entities share two or more units so that they can never meet each other although they can share memories by swapping units.
The communion has mixed feelings about guiding Flandry's crew across the mountains so:
"'They'll create one called Many Thoughts and let heesh ponder the question.'" (p. 84)
So will Many Thoughts, who does not exist until created but who then comprises three units bearing memories and aptitudes from many other entities, think and decide for the whole communion? Might that be their equivalent of an election/consensus/vote?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
No, this looks much more like a kind of fragmented hive mind to me. A certain respected entity is assembled and "heesh's" decision will be accepted by the tribe/s.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
And, through this wise entity, the communion will reach its version of a collective decision.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
But it does not LOOK collective to me. It still looks like a kind of hive mind to me. I don't think terminology such as "collective decision" works.
Ad astra! Sean
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