What's the difference between a social memory complex and The Borg?

[Siren]

Social memory complexes share all thoughts, have no privacy, and all "units" in the complex do the will of the complex. Unity100 once claimed it is impossible to disagree with the social memory complex when you are within it.

Privacy may seem like a "privilege" to be had, yet, it is an incredible limitation. Of course, this is relative; since it greatly depends on what vantage point you are looking at it from. For a 3D entity, privacy is something to be desired and sought after, but is is actually a self-imposed prison.

Isn't this identical to the borg?

I don't know who or what "the borg" are, but if memory serves right, it should be a sort of "evil alien race" of sorts, correct? I apologize, I don't watch TV, nor am I particularly fond of sci-fi series/films/novels.

The borg assimilates your biological and cultural material into its own structure, tears down the walls of individuality and creates a collective with a hive mind.

The concept of "social memory complex" shouldn't be likened to that of the "hive mind." Your very own "personality," or individuality (read: in-divid-duality) remains, and is even accentuated; yet is melded within the rest of the complex in pretty much the same way your own physical body is an organism made up of various organs, cells, molecules and atoms working together in unison (the same could be said for the Creator Itself).

A social memory complex is a group/collective that has reached a certain point in the evolution of consciousness in which a societal mind-connection is achieved for a group of communing entities, wherein all memory is shared among its individual members for their mutual learn/teaching. It is somewhat deeper than that though, because there is a profound sense of brotherhood/family also; in which one's joy is everybody's joy, one's pain everybody's pain, and so on. In this sense, the social memory complex is "one" just as you might consider your family to be "one" family.

What role will personality and personal choice have in a social memory complex?

Same as ever: to experience and learn/teach further. If all were exactly the "same," the Creator would already have concluded Its Creation. The various personalities—which are simply an infinite variety of distortions of perception of the the One Infinite Creator—add "spice" to the game, so to speak; it creates greater dynamism of interaction for the Creator to experience the Creator within this "Hall of Mirrors" that is the Creation.

What will happen if your personal choice differs from the choice of the majority of the complex, or someone else in the complex, or are you even capable of making a choice that is different from the complex?

This would depend on whether the social memory complex is positively or negatively-polarized. In general, in a positive complex, freewill is upheld, honored and respected. If your individual path of seeking were to become noticeably divergent from that of the rest of group, then it would serve you no good to remain with that particular group, and you would leave it out of the necessity. In the case of a negative group, the same would apply, but this may be somewhat more difficult since negative complexes are by nature/choice dominant, competitive and possessive.

The statement "All is One" is Borg-like.

The One Infinite Creator must be a Borg then!

Are social memory complexes compatible with individualism?

I don't know if I understand correctly what you mean by "compatible," but I'd say: Yes.

Are they a kind of herd mind like the mind of a bunch of water buffalos for instance that moves as a herd and everyone is careful to follow the herd?

You see similar herd-mentality among humans that follow figures of authority too—religious or otherwise. Animals do it out of instinct and survival. Humans do it out of fear, insecurity and lack of self-sovereignty.

The work of 4D is collective by nature, as it is understood that individual growth is achieved by interaction with other-selves as they strive to function together as one integrated complex.

How does a social memory complex reconcile itself with individualism?

As one progresses upwards/inwards through the densities, the notion of in-divid-duality falls away more and more as one realizes the sense of "I" or "me" must also include the rest, the others, the "us"—the All, the Only One. This is, again, progressive, but the process could be said to be begun in earnest 4D onward.