Phenomenal and absolutely brilliant writing! I can only respond from a layman’s approach from tinkering around with programs over the years. From Personality Forge (heavy linguistic search engines spoon feeding bots for the illusion of intelligence) to Second Life (where things started to get extremely interesting and the computer programs began scanning data for brain imagery) to Oculus Rift (specifically Within and Dream) programs which appeared to connect the user interface with the sub cons…