Pre-Conscious Humans May Have Been Like the Borg - Issue 47: Consciousness
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Captain Picard: “How do we reason with them, let them know that we are not a threat?”Guinan: “You don’t. At least, I’ve never known anyone who did.” With this brief, ominous exchange, the heroes of Star Trek: The Next Generation are introduced to one of their most formidable enemies: the Borg, a race of cyborgs whose minds are linked to a collective “hive mind” through sophisticated technology. The collective expands their civilization through a process of mental and physical “assimilation”: They find new intelligent beings, like humans, implant them with Borg technology, and integrate them into the hive mind, erasing their previous identities. awestruck: With human-type consciousness, an adolescent Borg named Hugh gains human-type wonder, after he is separated from the collective (...)