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FirstEbb2 t1_j62qs3h wrote

I have a hard time imagining what that would be like, my best imagining is that everyone seamlessly "thinks they become a kind of super consciousness", no pain in between, no feeling of being suppressed, just feeling "self" become Stronger, I feel that "I" is completely controlling this super consciousness.

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YobaiYamete OP t1_j62r684 wrote

I think you can already kind of experience it honestly. If you've ever been caught up in a mob mentality situation, where things are happening fast and you have hundreds of people on Reddit reporting stuff as fast as they find it, and you are scouring dozens of threads an hour and reporting info you saw others report etc, you can quickly feel like a part of a collective. You don't feel like you have any direct control, but can definitely feel your own impact as it steers and goes in a certain direction

Now the downsides of our limited version is misinformation spreads like wildfire and the truth can't catch up, but with a gestalt it would be the opposite where misinformation starts and then someone else debunks it and it instantly stops, or it hits a point where the individual parts make their own decisions on which side is right based on the info available

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FirstEbb2 t1_j62rr4r wrote

I have an example I don't know if it's accurate - some people are tired of the progress bar loading, so decide not to look at him for a while, after distracting, he feels that he "made the progress bar speed up" - this is obviously not caused by his will, But in line with his expectations, it gave him the illusion that his will "worked".

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