It's not a bad idea in theory but I would assume it would be easier to neurally enhance an already unified mind.
To benefit from a gestalt hive mind you would have to find a way to distribute cognition in a scalable way otherwise you are basically throttling each mind with unessesary mental tasks.
What do you mean by
>already unified mind
?
Single brain. Like the one you and I use.
That just sounds like they were able to get rats to communicate on higher level than they previously communicated at, of course that would yield better result in group-oriented tasks like weather forecasting, where if you have one unit several miles away who is able to instantaneously communicate what they see then you have more information to work off of, that's how our Internet works today, linking our brains together wouldn't allow us to do anything we can't already do with the Internet.
Also
Why is it always intelligence? Why is it that every time something useful or beneficial pops up that can improve several other fields, the only thing the transhumanists care about is intelligence? Not creating entirely new forms of flora and fauna, engineering entire ecosystems from the ground up that are designed to be beneficial to humans while at the same time completely self-sustaining, but human intelligence, as if there was any need to increase it further, if you even could.
Starting my PhD in neuron computer interfacing mid august
meme-magic alone will not get you anywhere. If you want to get anywhere you need to get out there and do it yourself.
As for enhancing intelligence, that's ridiculously far away right now, focus on the groundwork.
What about producing a kind of brain-computer interface to increase intelligent. More into the spectrum of Cybernetics.
>focus on the groundwork
That's what this thread is all about.
That's awesome! I'm actually very interested in this subject however I don't know if I will be able to go into this when I get to grad school. I'm majoring in Biochemistry and Neuroscience, with a minor in mathematics. I have no experience with computer science whatsoever though. Do you think it's possible?
Could anyone explain to me the hate against transhumanism on this board/in this thread? From what I've heard it's just the idea of enhancing the body/mind above "natural" levels?
>Why is it always intelligence?
Intelligence is a general evolutionary adaption that is much less specialized than a claw or a beak.