No wonder then that we so easily imagine the creations becoming creatures in their own right, endowed with minds as agile as ours, or more agile perhaps. Our creations are starting to escape our own minds. We have by now created technologies that no single person is able to master. To each era its machine-from hydraulic pumps to computers. And in order to look at ourselves in the mirror, we have always used technological analogies, compared our minds to the technologies we had created. We have developed a capacity for metarepresentation-a capacity to be aware of having, and to analyze our own minds-which is a function of higher order consciousness. The evolution of the human mind is instantiated in the evolution of technology. We have always used our cognitive capacities to create the objects we needed to survive, from weapons to garments and shelters. The history of humanity and the history of technology are conjoined.
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