"After countless years, possibly hundreds of millions, they finally gave up mechanical ascension, abandoned their obsession with bodily ascension, and turned to another extreme.
"Collective consciousness ascension."
"Collective?" Yang Ming asked, "What does that mean?"
"Imparting thought to society, sacrificing the individual, consolidating collective will!"
Director Eno's eyes shone brightly,
"Can you imagine? Trillions of humans using their bodies as information processing units for this collective consciousness! They uploaded their consciousness and thoughts into a network formed by their bodies, ultimately merging into a true whole, a consciousness birthed from human society itself!
"A low-dimensional collective became a high-dimensional individual, the high-dimensional individual contained the collective, granting it new significance.
"This super consciousness formed by the resonance of hundreds of billions of human minds finally broke free from the shackles of dimension.
