I picture a intelligence thats related to a hive mind (likely to be confused with one). It seeks to improve its Intelligence & knowledge by hunting suitable minds & "eating" them. Among other things - Not only its cannibalistic dining.
The eaten minds gets merged & become components of accumulating knowledge & intelligence.
Perhaps its a Artificial intelligence that is the unifying structure for containing & merging the captive minds.(Or a dead opera Glitterati with a ambitious life support system.)
But the merged result is the manifested will, not its specific components.
Each component before the merger wouldn't think its was the entity -Perhaps not even the "original" AI component. Should it be possible to rescue a eaten mind, it still wouldn't think its was the entity -since a water drop isn't the ocean.
"Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man."
Inspirations are of course from various films & anime that portray hive minds (or similar). Key inspirations (with vague spoilers) were the mentioned Glitterati life support system or a large burlap sack of bugs.
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