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It's not like we all recently became "software" -- we always were. It's more like an upgraded version of the human Operating System, including epistemological object-orientation, multitasking capability and a good memory manager. Couple this with a post-relativistic realization of the insignificance of the individual in an industrial war-world governed by ape-machines, and you come up with people who are willing -- more than willing -- to abolish the line between Self and Technique in order to manifest their ideals.
Here is the truth: The body itself is a piece of technology. So is the mental operating system. These are our interface units, and their processes are continually becoming more easily addressable. They reflect each other, and while we are always expanding the operative terrain of each, we are also continuously creating analog-structures for all elements in each of the worlds, making sure that there exists at least one physical reference for every astral one, and vice- versa.
We are the bridge between the worlds, and we are the builders of that bridge. We are building it out of us.
We have always been CyberDo. We just keep finding more shocking ways to overcome our constantly-developing tolerance to what McLuhan only half-correctly called "this self-amputation which is technology."
Every choice excludes something for sake of another. In this sense every choice -- every development -- is an "amputation." But a wise choice increases the value of existence by condensing information and expanding possibility.
That came from Will of Nature issue 1.
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