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Ivo Ph.D. Quartiroli. The Digitally Divided Self: Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet
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Introduction
Editor’s note
Chapter 1. From Awareness of Technology to Technologies of Awareness
The Limits of Technology
What’s Not Computable Isn’t Real
The Promises of the Early Internet
From Information Processing to Consciousness Processing
All in the Digital Mincer
Technology Can’t be Challenged
Technology Uses Us
Feeding the Soul with Bytes
The Immortal Mind
Inner Prostheses and Amputations through Technology
Beyond the Mind
The Fragility of Beliefs and Information Technology
Chapter 2 “It’s Only a Tool”
Technology is not Questionable
Knowing through the Body
Technology “Does” Us
Technology is a Matter of Life and Death
Binary and Inner Duality
Knowing through the Heart
Our Identity With Tools – from Chimps to Chips
Reconnecting with the Inner Flow
From Spectator to Witness
Inner Holes and Techno-Fills
Pure Thinking Without the Body
Tools for Inner Growth
The Mind Itself is a Medium
IT Weakens Our Presence
Chapter 3. The Roots of IT. Constrained to Produce
IT was Started by the Bible
Technology as Returning to the Lost Perfection
Contradictory Messages Short Circuit the Psyche
Children of a Lesser God
Psychological Defenses
Technology as the Ultimate Savior
The Nature of the Mind
Conceptual Debris and Technology as a Holding Agent for the Psyche
The Quest for Immortality
Copying, Improving and Creating Minds
Chapter 4. The Digitization of Reality
Data is King
The Digitization of Territory
Augmenting Reality
The Mind as the First Virtual Reality Tool
The Digitization of Biology
Analogical Models of Reality
Our Digital Nervous Systems
Programming
Thinking like Software
Digitizing All Life Events
Chapter 5. Intimacy and Sexuality
Eros and the Sexualization of Society
Cybersex
The Transformation of Seduction and of Relationship
Masturbation and Sex Toys
Sex Toys
Orgasm 2.0
Cybervirgins
Gender Issues and the Vanishing Male
Earlier Exposure to Porn
Desires
Cybersex as a Tantric Path
Chapter 6. Commoditizing and Monetizing
Replacing the Real
Playing with Feelings
iMarket
Brave New World
Deconstructing Sense and Ethics
Toward the Denial of Truth
Chapter 7. Politics, Participation and Control
The Rulers of Our Psyches
Governments
Advertising and Our Attention
Google
Wikileaks
Into Our Digital Persona
You Can Tell What Somebody is Like by the Company They Keep
Is the Internet Empowering Us?
Illusory Participation
Slacktivism
The Yogic Geek
Chapter 8. Come Together: The Rise of Social Networks
Renouncing the World
The Inner Need of Connection and Facebook
Experiencing for Others to See
Empathy
Illusory Contact
Chapter 9. Digital Kids
Body/Mind Development in Childhood
Denied Childhood
Computers in Education
Lack of Mentors
Technology as an Answer to Social Fear
Wired Children
Sleepless Children
Chapter 10. Literacy and the Analytical Mind
Analytical and Critical Skills
A New Literacy Through eBooks?
The Reading “Technology”
Digital Writing
Communication and the Transformation of Consciousness
Chapter 11. Lost in the Current
Attend to This!
Attend to it Now and Forever!
New is Cool
Instant Gratification
Neurological Changes Related to Instant Gratification
Accepting Emptiness and the Eureka Effect
Faster and Faster, but just Apparently
Into the Loop
Technological Updates and the Right to Silence
Cogitus Interruptus through Multitasking
No History, No Narrative, No Past
Digital and Human Memory
Addiction
Awareness of Feelings and Addiction
Chapter 12. The Digitally Divided Self. Attention
The Construction of the Self
Technological Development as a Metaphor of the Psychological One
Millions of MP3s and the Missing “My Personality”
Attachment to the Machine
The Need for Mirroring
Maternal Feeding and Paternal Limit Setting
The Sand Castle Crumbles: Toward a Schizoid State
The Other as Image
Detaching from the Body
The Schizoid State is an Ontological Condition
The Eye, the Ear, and a Global Tribalism
The Mind as a Medium
No Identity
Chapter 13. The Process of Knowledge
The Reign of Objectivity
Joining Inner and Outer Knowledge
Not Knowing
Words are Second-Best After Silence
Do We Know with our Brains?
Externalizing Thinking
Chapter 14. Upgrading to Heaven
Creating Consciousness
Technology as an Ego Maintainer
IT Beyond Me: Unlinking Ourselves through Technology
Here and Now
Devotionally Disappearing into Technology
The Immortal Mind
Spiritual Powers through Technology
Are we Machines?
The Will to Create Mental Worlds
Chapter 15. Biting the Snake
Out of the Loop
Screen Media vs. Meditation
Meditation
IT is basically Counter-Meditative
Another Maya Layer through Technology
Appendix. The People of Contemporary IT and what Drives Them
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
John von Neumann
Norbert Wiener
Alan Turing
Al Gore
Stewart Brand
Kevin Kelly
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Withdrawing into the Mind
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