The belief, as noted above, that the intelligence needed to make decisions on information is provided by an external source, is a symptom of this, too. We’re constantly referring to “users”, as in, Net users. This delusion can be understood by the term, “user”. For some reason, we think of the Net in an abstract fashion. This is the symptom of a delusion that much of humanity suffers from.
We believe that the intelligence needed to make decisions on information is provided by an external source, such as a programmer, and this means that we maintain control over the machines. We like to think that the machines are not intelligent, because we’re the ones doing all the thinking, and taking action based on that. Sometimes, we are but brief flashes of fame and recognition, slashdotted, Dugg, and then we disappear into the subconscious, a fired neuron becoming dormant until needed again. In short, like Oshii suggested, physical bodies no longer matter. Now that we are constantly recording our lives, we can separate our mind from flesh, and those thoughts and experiences live forever. After our physical deaths, our memories and lives live on in a tangible form. We can be viewed by thousands of people, and not leave our armchair. We can call someone around the world, and not be there. Today, more people think that way than ever before, perhaps because who we are can now exist outside of ourselves, in our words. As far as they’re concerned, the human body does not exist anymore.”
Mamori Oshii, the Japanese director, once said that “As humans have become more ‘mind-oriented’ and the environment has become more urban, some have forgotten the idea of the human body.
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