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@Insomnolant @Owl I think about phone numbers a lot, I believe it was the canary in the coalmine. I’m calling the concept “weaponized cognitive off-loading”. Using the physical world to off-load information away from the brain is called cognitive offloading.

I used to remember phone numbers, I have a few very important numbers memorized, but due to the emergence of cell phones there is no real reason to commit them to memory. This phenomenon was noted soon after the commercial acceptance of cellphones.

Now taking the phone number concept, what other parts of the psyche can be off-loaded to the internet? I feel like if purposely weaponized, All information storage is at risk, communication skills, even parts of the personality could be off-loaded. People are being encouraged to put themselves online. With enough of a person being digital, the physical form becomes a husk, or an empty-headed NPC, easy to manipulate and weaken.