"Apple TV's Pluribus begins with an extraterrestrial virus merging the minds of nearly everyone on Earth into a shared consciousness. The new hive mind brings billions of bodies into perfect harmony, eliminating war, poverty, and loneliness. Meanwhile, Carol Sturka (played by Rhea Seehorn) is virtually the last true individual on Earth. We're rooting for Carol, but she seems miserable compared to the "Joined.""
"Randy Gallistel, a Yale neuroscientist, placed a rat in a T-shaped maze. An odorless treat was concealed at one of the two ends of the T's crossbar. Provided the rat scampered to the correct side of the T-maze first, it got the treat. Gallistel invited his students to play along. Like the rat, they couldn't see where the food was and had to guess."
An extraterrestrial virus merges nearly everyone's minds into a shared consciousness, creating a hive mind that eliminates war, poverty, and loneliness. One character remains a near-last individual, appearing unhappy compared with the Joined. The conflict between collectivism and selfishness is presented as a driver of politics and pop culture. Randy Gallistel's T-maze experiment had a rat and human students guess an odorless treat's location; rats guessed correctly about 75 percent while students were right barely 60 percent. The experiment demonstrates how hive-mind strategies can benefit groups and have been misrepresented by media.
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