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A mindguard, according to groupthink theory, is a member of a group who serves as an informational filter, providing limited information to the group and, consciously or subconsciously, utilizing a variety of strategies to control dissent and to direct the decision-making process toward a specific, limited range of possibilities.

The presence of mindguards within a group is one of eight main "symptoms" of groupthink identified by its original theorist, Irving Janis.

Multiple mindguards are frequently present in groupthink situations.

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato.

This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name "Octopus paxarbolis" (the species name being coined from Latin pax, the root of Pacific, and Spanish arbol meaning "tree").

It was purportedly able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where its eggs are laid.

Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824.

At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

He worked closely with mathematics professor Hugh Blackburn in his work.

He also had a career as an electric telegraph engineer and inventor, which propelled him into the public eye and ensured his wealth, fame and honour.

For his work on the transatlantic telegraph project he was knighted in 1866 by Queen Victoria, becoming Sir William Thomson.

He had extensive maritime interests and was most noted for his work on the mariner's compass, which had previously been limited in reliability.

The octopus (or) is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda.

It has two eyes and four pairs of arms and, like other cephalopods, it is bilaterally symmetric.

It has a beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms.

It has no internal or external skeleton (although some species have a vestigial remnant of a shell inside their mantles), allowing it to squeeze through tight places.

Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviorally diverse of all invertebrates.

Mind control (also known as brainwashing, reeducation, brainsweeping, coercive persuasion, thought control, or thought reform) is a theory that human subjects can be indoctrinated in a way that causes "an impairment of autonomy, an inability to think independently, and a disruption of beliefs and affiliations.

In this context, brainwashing refers to the involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and values".