The End of (Online) History
"The explosion of the personality into multiple internet selves has opened up many people, including myself, to a lot of heartache. Self-dissipation becomes self-dissatisfaction. I spent years scattering myself into personality fragments on many different websites until I couldn't locate my whole self anywhere. These personality fragments became de
... See moreJulian Jayne theorized that our ancestors experienced thought as bicameral , that is, as the voices of gods, and that our internal, self-narrating unicameral individual consciousness is a relatively new thing. Venkatesh Rao recently noted on Substack that we’re about to head into a noncameral mode of thought, by offloading the realtime processing t... See more