Neuralink will revolutionize our understanding of consciousness. Through the ability to merge consciousnesses, the fundamental nature of consciousness will be revealed the only way it can be--by truly seeing what it is LIKE to be a fundamental property of the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKzAj1dOq4In this analysis of Evangelion, and in particular, of "Instrumentality" (merger of consciousnesses) as it is called in the show, an interesting dialogue between Shinji and is mental interlocutors lays bare what will be probably the biggest obstacle to achieving instrumentality: the realization that when "you" are everyone, you are all alone in the entire universe. In this, Evangelion is an anti-instrumentality show. Meanwhile, I would like to make a pro-instrumentality case by countering that when you (we) become the overconsciousness, we will no longer have human social needs, because we will no longer be human. Plenty of animals are independent and have minimal social needs. We are simply being blinded by a simple biological drive that won't have any place in a world where consciousness is unified.
