@NicoleCRust Sorry, still waiting for the #neurohistory counterpart of Asimov's #psychohistory to take off, to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) BTW, Idea 9 is going to be a headache for cortical prosthesis developers, and you have not yet addressed macroscopic effects of quantum entanglement in the brain :-) https://bigthink.com/hard-science/brain-consciousness-quantum-entanglement/