"megamind" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Sir John Carew Eccles, Mind and brain: the many-faceted problems",
          "text": "Directly and indirectly, the latter depend on whether consciousness is believed to be mortal or immortal, or reincarnate or cosmic; and whether consciousness is conceived to be localized and brain-bound or essentially universal as in pan-psychism or Whiteheadian theory— or perhaps capable of \"supracoalescence\" in a megamind.",
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          "ref": "1983, Janet Morris, Cruiser Dreams, page 111",
          "text": "That cruisers talked to cruisers across vast distances like synapses discharging in a megamind could not be proven mathematically.",
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          "ref": "1984, Analog science fiction/science fact - Volume 104, page 92",
          "text": "We've let ourselves become homogenized, seduced into becoming part of a group organism. We've bought the lie that achievement equals selfishness, and it has cost us our excellence. “I'm here to say that I am not a neuron in a megamind. I am not a standardized part on a social assembly line. ...\"",
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          "ref": "2005, Katherine E. Ellison, The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature",
          "text": "Epstein has developed a number of online venues, such as InteLnet, \"Collective Improvisations,\", and \"ThinkLinks,\" which strive to create a \"megamind\" of creative interdisciplinary ideas about culture, literature, philosophy, and other subjects.",
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          "ref": "2015, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach, page 26",
          "text": "Last, a possibility remains that some minds are physically or informationally recursively nested within other minds. With respect to the physical nesting, we can consider a type of mind suggested by Kelly (2007b), who talks about \"a very slow invisible mind over large physical distances.\" It is possible that the physical universe as a whole or a significant part of it comprises such a megamind.",
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        "A mind that is composed of other minds nested within it."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hivemind"
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          "ref": "1982, Sir John Carew Eccles, Mind and brain: the many-faceted problems",
          "text": "Directly and indirectly, the latter depend on whether consciousness is believed to be mortal or immortal, or reincarnate or cosmic; and whether consciousness is conceived to be localized and brain-bound or essentially universal as in pan-psychism or Whiteheadian theory— or perhaps capable of \"supracoalescence\" in a megamind.",
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