The simple truth is, technology has defined cultures and shaped behaviors forever. Both kinds are melting into a gray area we don't know how to define. The technology that extends our senses is increasingly difficult to distinguish from the technology that creates our senses.
Theology dissolves into biomechanics.
Whatever we were before we became who we are is a memory living on in molecules that encode the experience of our species. Yet we live as if our maps, simulated worlds invented by human and cybernetic brains, are real. We hit the brakes, paradoxically discovering that which enabled us to see in the first place. In moments of discontinuity, context becomes content, and we see who we really are. My wife was diagnosed this week with breast cancer.