Oh my word, it's like you wrote a post especially for me... ;P
First of all, be careful with that thumb of yours. Repeated Stress Injuries are no fun. I've started experiencing a bit of it in my left wrist/hand/arm - it hurts, I tell you!
But that brain is just perfect. If you put it on MakersPlace, I'll buy it for sure. And how about the actual work? For sale? =)
It'll probably come as no surprise that I've often thought about the things you touch upon in this post. And honestly, a collective mind is exactly where I think we're headed as a species, and Elon's Neuralink might just be the pioneering company that starts it all off.
It's going to be fascinating to see how it all plays out - or at least it would be, if we were able to live long enough. Would we lose our individuality completely in the end, or would we be able to maintain a kind of hybrid system where we could plug/unplug ourselves into the "omnimind" at will? And how would that feel? I imagine it would be like going to sleep and having perhaps having an extremely vivid dream of being the omnimind sentience.
Oohh, and you know... Maybe blockchain-like structuring would help in keeping our individuality somehow?
Maybe we are actually all the same so it was for all of us, hehe
I wish the thumb was my only concern at this point, but it isn't. Getting old sucks xD
Never really sold any of my works and not planning much on that? Maybe one day I will just give them away to people. Will see. For now I just really enjoy piling them up, you know? Sometimes put them all around me in a big circle and stare at details, patterns and hopefully progress in some way.
I recently read that Neuralink even resides in the same building with OpenAI, so it would not be surprising if it creates some sort of linked version of us through AI technology.
As time goes on we will begin to protect our individuality more and more I think. As I wrote this post I thought about how some people would really want to shield their minds so that no one could tap into them and indeed blockchain could help with that as well in some way.