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Dunno man. You could argue that we’ve spent 2500 years cultivating the individual, and what McLuhan was observing with mass media was just the beginning of technology being used to accelerate this.

Digital platforms use hyper-personalization to cater specifically to each psyche, resulting in 8 billion lonely world views. It might be cohesion which is at risk, not the individual.
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Ross 7mo ago

Also, while I think this is the trajectory we are on from a cosmic scale - I maintain an optimistic view on the outcome. At some point all of the deep individual introspection hits a threshold and we pop out the other side.

Progress in systems with artificial consciousness could assist in this process by helping people understand the detrimental effects of living entirely in our own minds.

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