Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2026
I develop a framework as to how to grow group mind content and how to destroy existing group minds, and present standard operating procedures for how group minds interact with individual members of the group. PPF suggests that the brain/mind seeks to minimize “surprise” because surprise tells us that our predictive models are inadequate. We want our predictive models to be accurate at predicting what is going to happen next in our lives. When our expectations are violated, we are surprised and that surprise then triggers the model-updating process. This process involves a relaxation of central executive control networks so that the group mind can take over control of the mind and behavior of the individual. Once the CEN/FPN is downregulated, the individual is open to exogenous influences and then “downloads” content from the group mind. That group mind content primes existing semantic content in the individual mind, which then interfaces with the cultural scripts produced by the group mind, thus allowing those to take over control of the individual mind. Once the scripts in the group mind occupy those external positions and promoter positions in the self model, the script can take over the neurologic machinery of the mind.
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