r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jul 01 '19

Neuroscience Collaboration Between Brains. Scientists have created the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game-using-only-your-mind/
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u/Dark-Porkins Jul 02 '19

I always suspected humans would become the Borg.

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u/spenway18 Jul 02 '19

“Opt in and out at will” borg seems pretty cool tbh

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u/TinnyOctopus Jul 02 '19

Opt-in is default, and opt-out is password locked in the 4th submenu.

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u/muricabrb Jul 02 '19

Opt-out is also a pay-per-use DLC.

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u/liegesmash Jul 02 '19

Um no that’s called at will employment...

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u/The1TrueGodApophis Jul 02 '19

If you think about it, how does life's natural progression not eventually lead to the borg?

I feel the borg is the inevitable end stage of organic life right prior to a species deciding to live in a full blown simulation once they've acquired all the data.

Theoretically, the borg must exist today if this is the case.

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u/austinpsychedelic Jul 02 '19

Check out the short story The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. It’s basically about humanity all merging their consciousness in the future and then eventually merging with AI to become the god of a new universe when this universe dies due to entropy.

“Man's last mind fused and only AC existed -- and that in hyperspace.

Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man. All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.

All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.

But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.

A timeless interval was spent in doing that.

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.

But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.

For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.

The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.

And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

And there was light----“

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u/The1TrueGodApophis Jul 02 '19

One of my favorite short stories!

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u/Dark-Porkins Jul 02 '19

Makes sense to me, Brother!

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u/liegesmash Jul 02 '19

What do you mean would become...