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Beyond pharmacological interventions, the landscape of mind augmentation encompasses more ambitious possibilities, such as advanced neurosurgery, improved education models, and emerging cybernetic implants. These approaches aim not only at increasing overall intelligence but also at enhancing specific cognitive functions.
Concepts like Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) appear on the horizon, promising to connect human minds either to external networks or even to one another, potentially leading to collective intelligence phenomena, or "Hive Minds." This drastic redefinition of what constitutes an individual mind opens a new realm of ethical and philosophical consideration.