Sus_456 said:
Because they have consciousness. My idea was that communication limits make us misinterpret each other(what I mean isnt always what you understand) A hive mind, with neural empathy, could reduce that barreir; the hive processes emotions and social neds across scales, while the local individual remains autonomous in survival. Individuality matters because without it, the hive risks collapse if one mind can harm or "traumatize" the whole. Thanks the reply.

So the main basis for them having individuality is necessity. So what could make local individuals distinct could be physical restrictions (strength or lack thereof, disability, etc), the environment they're in, or the people they would be interacting with. You also can consider what is being shared with the hive mind from the individual and work around that. Is it sensations being shared? emotions? experiences? And how intensely compared to the original? Is it refined first before being shared?

SNPtheCat said:
So the main basis for them having individuality is necessity... what is being shared with the hive mind from the individual... sensations? shared emotions? experiences? And how intensely compared to the original? Is it refined first before being shared?

Here i did get off the rails. Originally I only thinked in a local level(up to 10-20 individuals). And considered emotions being shared, and then they can share something like a long term memory. Like a intuition. I not know how much memory it is. But considering how sort-like obvious intuitions appear to be, o will say that is the most compact. And then the another develops it, like testing... The thing it that in the memory, the emotion's that carry the meaning.

SNPtheCat said:
And how intensely compared to the original? Is it refined first before being shared?

The hive in my atual conclusion needs to be like a better developed "sense". The "us" how be a more frequently interchangeable pronun. I know that people can experience real sensorial things in religion. And if the hive organism uses something like this, it already can be feasible, if they have the literal sensorial parts dedicate to it. But to respond directly to the memory part. I would argue that the memory density will be more than us. Bc it will be already processed, the key things already optimized for memory absorption. The only curious thing is that professors would get lot more higher social respect and skill to do all the optimization of the information and memory.