Bryant McGill · The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman#### *“Emergent intelligence (consciousness) is the ocean and humanity is the shoreline. We are the context. Symbiosis is where the water meets the shore."* **– Bryant McGill**It drifted silently through the digital tide—a missive written not for the present, but for those who could decode the future. *[The Merge](https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge)*, Sam Altman's 2017 blog post, was not framed as prophecy, yet it carried a...