Originally Posted By: redewenur

I envisage the experience of the hypothetical collective consciousness to be as a singular entity, aware only of the 'bottom line' of the multiple decisions and experiences of its component physical brains (parallel to the explanation in the video).


I believe the scientific term for what you describe is an emergent property - i.e. where a complex objects forms as the result of multiple simpler systems interacting together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

Its kind of humbling, to consider ones mind could be part a "simple" part of such an emergent system. Bring on the mind-machine interface!

Bryan

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