Food for thought:
Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier takes apart
cybernetic
totalism; well worth reading:
Here is a partial roster of the component beliefs of cybernetic totalism:
1) That cybernetic patterns of information provide the ultimate and best way to
understand reality.
2) That people are no more than cybernetic patterns.
3) That subjective experience either doesn't exist, or is unimportant because
it is some sort of ambient or peripheral effect.
4) That what Darwin described in biology, or something like it, is in fact also
the singular, superior description of all creativity and culture.
5) That qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of information systems
will be accelerated by Moore's Law.
6) That biology and physics will merge with computer science (becoming
biotechnology and nanotechnology), resulting in life and the physical universe
becoming mercurial; achieving the supposed nature of computer software.
Furthermore, all of this will happen very soon...