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leamirella's picture

Thanks for your reply!

I get your point about protecting your data and knowing about the risks that are involved.

However, I do have another question that arises from this. In chapter 11 of your book, you talk about the internet becoming self aware. (I really liked this section by the way and found it really intriguing) However, if we, hypothetically, had an integration between mind and the internet which then becomes self aware, what happens to the mind? While I personally believe that the internet and technology are not entities in and of themselves, I wonder what you have to say about the mind. What would the implications of this be? Would we lose our sense of selves? Our creativity? Our own individual thoughts? While humans don't perceive the world the same way, I just feel as though having the internet in our brains would make us more uniform.

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