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Brian L. Ott

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The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness

Philosophies January 11, 2023 Brian L. Ott

Technologies of communication condition human sense-making. They do so by creating the social environment we inhabit and extending their structural biases and logics through human use. As such, this essay inquires into the prevailing habits of mind in the digital era. Employing a media ecology of communication, I argue that digital computers and microprocessors are defined by three structural...