Let’s step back for a moment. In this book I am picking out a few topographical features of modern culture, and suggesting that we see them as part of a larger landscape. Like trees in the foreground, we have various polemics about our novel digital landscape; the larger forest consists of a set of assumptions about how our minds work that we have inherited from the Enlightenment. Of course, these were not originally assumptions, but well-articulated assertions. As such, they were addressed to somebody; they were part of a conversation. In recovering this historical context, we see that the
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