Unity
Names: UnityCoadunationCoadúnate Numbercoadunate mental evolutionUnificationCoadunating NoösphereGalactic MindProtocol of UnificationCoadunate Milieucoadunate mental stateTeilhardian UnanimizationUnification of the Human MindUnity of the Galactic MilieuGalactic OvermindcoadúnateUnanimizationUnity Protocol
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 13Mysterious mental state all human operants will be inducted into at the coadunate number; feared by some to submerge individuality.
- Ch 14Rebels fear that once Unity is imposed, which requires normals as well as operants, rebellion becomes impossible.
- Ch 15Throma'eloo says a mind in Unity is sovereign yet coadunate and incapable of such offenses; unUnified client races like humans are not held to have inviolable wills.
- Ch 16Humans need ten thousand million minds for coadunation; they have seven and a half thousand million, with coadunation projected around A.D. 2083.
- Ch 16Only five races have achieved coadunation in 730 Galactic millenaries, and intervals between successes are shrinking.
- Ch 21A race reaching its coadunate number attains Unity, rejecting malignant aggression; failed races are isolated from superluminal travel and rarely survive long.
- Ch 28Unifex decreed the Intervention and maintains humanity's ultimate Unification is probable; the probation lasts a thousand days.
- Ch 37The Directorate is considering a commission of philosophers and religious leaders to study Unity; Esi fears Paul and Anne will pack it with Jesuits.
- Ch 42Fury describes Unity as a mind-homogenizing process turning operants into cells in an Overmind dominated by the Lylmik.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 2Unity is the Coadunating Noösphere, a mental union based on Teilhardian ultracerebration; all other human operants live in it, and many normal humans feared it.
- Ch 2Initiation into Unity requires Affirming, which exposes all of a person's mind and secrets.
- Ch 8Unity is a proposed permanent mental union with the Galactic Mind; the Human Polity is debating whether to accept it.
- Ch 12Denis and Sevvy-aligned sons oppose or fear Unity; Denis supports it in principle while some of his sons oppose it.
- Ch 12According to Fred and Minnie, Unity makes egocentricity and hostile action toward others inconceivable while the ego remains intact; it can only be experienced.
- Ch 16At about ten billion people, expected in the early 2080s, humanity would undergo metapsychic complexification pressuring it toward Unity.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 4Unity is the coadunate mental state underlying the Galactic Milieu; the human population is expected to reach the coadunate number of ten billion in the mid-2080s.
- Ch 4The Rebel faction fears Unity would cost humans their mental autonomy and speaks of a draconian solution; pro-Unity Magnates waver.
- Ch 18Exotic theorists hold that Unity should arise spontaneously when humanity reaches ten thousand million, but for humans this might take an unacceptably long time.
- Ch 18Jack says that, according to Denis, once Unity is attained it cannot be lost, unlike falling out of love.
- Ch 25Operant children across the colonies are spontaneously experiencing coadunation, sometimes momentary Unity; it is kept secret on the advice of the Panpolity Directorate for Unity.
- Ch 31Humanity has reached its coadunate number; two adults have experienced Unity's inchoation. Coadunation could abort if conflict spreads through the Milieu.
- Ch 35The Ghost suggests Rogi may find Unity more appealing in coming months and tells him to discuss it with Malama.