Extended Nervous System

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Emotional circuits that give us pleasure. That we construct things in the world that help us do this, including social networks.

You get enough feedback to prove that the action is you, that that mechanical device is an extension of yourself.

There is the creation of a second self online.

One who runs a server and hosts websites has a nervous system that extends to those sites. When the site goes down, they may be physiologically affected. They are running an organism. Google Analytics is a sensing network that acts as an extended nervous system detecting clicks on the extension of one's identity.

In the same way, one's perception changes when one enters a vehicle. One's perception extends to the edges of the vehicle.