By 2045, will advancements in technology enable individuals to collectively experience a form of consciousness that transcends individual minds?

Shared cognitive technology refers to advancements in tools or systems that allow individuals to interact and collaborate in ways that augment their cognitive abilities, potentially leading to a shared understanding or awareness beyond individual minds, leading to shared insights, emotions, or experiences.

To qualify as collective consciouness, the augmentation should allow shared cognitive capabilities beyond simply shared sensing experience. Instead, it should involve the actual merging of the consciousness of multiple individuals, bluring the lines between individuals minds and allowing experience of a shared feeling and cognition. This merging should lead to every participant experiencing a state akin to a singular cognitive entity.

The conscious experience would in this case imply the casual experiencing of emotions, state of mind, cognition, reliable knowledge retrival, regular experience of self.