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figure out what’s going on, decide on some course of action, and enact it through the narrow interface of the keyboard or the data-glove, carefully monitoring the result to see if it turns out the way they expected. Our experience of the everyday world is not of that sort. There is no homunculus sitting inside our heads, staring out at the world through our eyes, enacting some plan of action by manipulating our hands and checking carefully to make sure we don’t overshoot when reaching for the coffee cup.8
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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