The idea that humans should abandon their individuality and use technology to bind themselves together into hivemind societies seems both farfetched and frightening – something that is redolent of the worst dystopias from science fiction. In this article, we argue that these common reactions to the ideal of a hivemind society are mistaken. The idea that humans could form hiveminds is sufficiently plausible for its axiological consequences to be taken seriously. Furthermore, far from being a dystopian nightmare, the hivemind society could be desirable and could enable a form of sentient flourishing. Consequently, we should not be so quick to deny it. We provide two arguments in support of this claim – the axiological openness argument and the desirability argument – and then defend it against three major objections.

人们应该放弃自己的个性，并使用技术将自己束缚到一个蜂巢的社会中，这一想法似乎既牵强又令人恐惧-这可以抵消科幻小说中最严重的反乌托邦。在本文中，我们认为对蜂巢社会理想的这些共同反应是错误的。人类可能会形成蜂巢的想法足以合理地对待其价值论后果。此外，蜂巢社会远非反乌托邦式的噩梦，而是可取的，并可以促进一种有情的繁荣。因此，我们不应如此迅速地否认它。我们提供两种论据来支持这一主张，即价值论上的开放性论证和合意性论证，然后针对三个主要反对意见进行辩护。