We can even claim support from traditional models of the brain and nervous system. The Heaven's Gate cult was the first to test the promise of a disembodied second nature. Wired to the Internet, Heaven's Gate had already made the break with nature and only needed to shed their bodies, which they did. In old, mythical terms, these persistent light effects would be their shades, left to wander the earth. But I wonder if we are just generating a new electronic humanism, of the kind predicted by Marshall McLuhan.
Computers demand an organization of audience.
We are rooted to the spot, no different than isolated commuters or villagers clustered around the only television set. Transforming the individual human into a global subjective body simply transfers authority to a higher level. I want room for natural anarchy. It seems there is anarchy now, with everything available on the Internet, but the redundancy effect is stunning. Cultural anarchists, after all, are merely members of their own social group.