And you are your cellphone. Our biological anatomy no longer captures the entirety of who we are. We, in body, mind, & emotions have actually become part of our cellphone's human anatomy.
Thinking is a process of symbol manipulation or neural computation, which gets carried out by the brain. Modern computational tools can become seamlessly integrated into how we think. Objects such as smartphones or notepads are often just as functionally essential to our cognition as the synapses firing in our heads. They augment and extend our minds by increasing our cognitive power and freeing up internal resources.
Essentially you have become nothing more than an extension of your computational tools.
From the moment our brains begin to mature intellectually we recognize that we are reactionary creatures in relation to the development of our thoughts. We cannot think something that we have not, in some form, already been exposed to. For example, our brains will not normally articulate our thoughts in Swahili if we are a being that has only been exposed to the English language.
We cannot recite the periodic table unless we have already been exposed to it.
I am recognizing the functioning of our brains. What I am highlighting here within this thread is the fact that our intellectual function is a posteriori.
I would love to hear your cellphone's articulation in reaction to my cellphone's characterizations in relation to this topic.
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.................................................When we die, our cellphones are more like our corpse than our couch.
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