Let’s talk about the future. No, I’m not going to go down some dystopian hellscape, but focus on what the next step in connecting humanity beyond our biological selves may look like in our advanced digital age.

To begin, I’ve crafted a term, neuroplexity, to describe the concept of human-to-digial connection.

Neuroplexity refers to the deeply intertwined system emerging from integration between human neural biology and advanced artificial intelligence technologies.

As digital devices become more intimately embedded within our minds and processes of thought, this fusion is superseded by a more fluid connection – an augmented, permeable collective intelligence.

The possibilities this presents are profound – we transcend previous constraints around memory, cognition, and knowledge access. Barriers to understanding between people dissolve as we digitally commune at speeds and breadths of scope impossible for unaided biological brains. Our identities shift across blended realities: part flesh, part data, part ephemeral.

Yet it also represents turbulent new frontiers of risk around agency, security, and the integrity of human experience. What is it to “think” or “feel” when enmeshed within computationally controlled infrastructure? How do we manage issues of consent, access, resilience and rights amidst system complexities spanning the tangible to ethereal?

While offering extraordinary extensions to human experience and endeavor, neuroplexity poses deeply complex questions around the essence of being we must grapple to answer responsibly. Maintaining philosophy, law, policy ahead of this curve is vital to steer change for the dignity, thriving and sovereignty of all connected across the widening rift between neurons and networks.