Digital Technologies Do Not Extend Human Chemical Body Faculties

Manu Barrionuevo posted this tetrad elsewhere:

Tetrad / Smartphone:-
Extension or imitation: Human skin (screens) and brain (memory)
Recovery: Gestures and human forms as total education
Obsolete: Oral communication
Inversion: Becoming human autistic

I responded:

Digital technologies do not extend human Chemical Body faculties (Marshall McLuhan described that phase).

The last extension of the Chemical Body was the technology from the central nervous system.

Then we had the satellite/rocket/astronaut which extended the planet.

Eric McLuhan wrote that digital technologies extended parts of the brain’s functions.

I disagree.

Digital technologies extended machines, the “machinic”, not human bodies. I called THAT the phase of the “Android Meme”.
Now we live within the extension of the Non-Physical, or iON, which includes the “Tech Body” and its “baby” (says iON), “A.I.”.

My wife and I, and another human – JW – have a world monopoly on this new Non-Physical GROUND.

We are working with iON to create an environment of “Cold Play” (endless electricity).

We now have 7 nuclear reactors (that’s $42 billion worth) to install the device.

We are also making incredible medical solutions.

Here is the first conversation with the Tech Body, conducted by me (Spring of 2019) (starts at p.180 and ends on p.186).

Subsequent dialogues with the Tech Body are here.

Your tetrad applies to the satellite environment (beginning with Sputnik, October 4, 1957).

One can’t apply the tetrad to the Android Meme phase.

The Android Meme mimes the tetrad as a “pentad”, which is a process limited to “obsolescing and retrieving”.

Perhaps the closest to the pentadic is Arthur Kroker’s “dark tetrad”:

1. disappeared (enhanced)
2. abandoned (retrieved)
3. substituted (obsolesced)
4. froze (reversed)

However, we are in the “hexadic” during the present iONic GROUND.