The discussion of soul seems difficult to place in the scope of modern technology. Language and the body, a vehicle and a vessel of human being are quickly losing ground to information and interface. I recognize these don't negate the presence of body and language, but there is a standardization occurring in language (and thought) - hyper-efficient bursts of text displacing lavish language and handwriting. And the body is flattened out into a stream of pictures, the ubiquitous digital camera the eye of the internet watch so many of our moves.
There's nothing we can say or do to stop this from happening. I'm more curious where it leads psyche, what shape it takes in an increasingly connected inter-space? Is it just breathing being into new levels of semantic potential, or is something actually lost along the way? As we become cyborgs, or should I say iBorgs, what happens to that meaning making element?
Is it happening here? Or is psyche lost from tweet to tweet?
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