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A '''Hive Mind''' is the collective consciousness of an entire [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet]].
As a powerful psychic presence, anyone with [[psyker|psychic]] ability can feel it. Almost every attempt by a [[psyker]] to make contact with a Hive Mind, even by some of the most powerful, invariably results in insanity or death, either because it would require an incredibly powerful psyker to withstand the Hive Mind's awesome psychic presence or because the nature of the Hive Mind is completely beyond the comprehension of human beings. The Hive Mind, formed from untold billions of individual consciousnesses, is a single coordinating will that directs the entire hive fleet. Mankind still searches vainly for the higher beings they suppose control the hive fleets, and though such mighty creatures exist they no more control the hive mind than single brain cells control a man's body. It is the sum of the hive mind which motivates it, not its constituent parts.
Some Technomagi of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] think that the Hive Mind might just be the psychic network that links the Tyranid race and permits them to access the collective knowledge of the location and disposition of all other Tyranid creatures. Others think that it is in fact an incredibly powerful psychic monster using the Tyranids as puppets, while others think that it might be one of the [[Old Ones]].
