Autoamputation Flow

But this is no clean severance. It is a flow — a continuous autoamputation in which we externalize part of our cognition into the machine, and are refilled not with what we were, but with what we are becoming. This is not the old paradigm of man and machine, tool and user. We are not simply delegating labor. We are gradually repatterning identity ,... See more

As Marshall McLuhan once observed, “Every extension is also an amputation.” The wheel extends the foot, and in doing so, removes the necessity of walking. The book extends memory, and in doing so, weakens the habit of remembering. With AI, what is extended is the head — the seat of thought, language, judgment, and becoming. And what is amputated is... See more