Comment on “We know we are more than just neurons firing. Or, at least we think we are, while the neurons are firing.”

andrewohlmann Sun, Apr 29, 2007
Ah, that clears it up, I think.

Do you think it's worth differentiating between "hive" minds and ones based in a brain?

I feel fairly sure that ones that arise from non-brain systems have any sort of consciousness. To say that the Earth is self-aware in any fashion strikes me as just a little bit too new-agey (Reading through the Gaia Hypothesis article, it looks like even most proponents of that hypothesis believe the same).