Chapter 01 — Information, Paragraph 13.1 (§01.00.13.01)

In the analogue world a separation between the individual’s personal and public lives, the private and public self, is assumed, at least in Western philosophy (see §26.00.04. But this separation is an internal, imagined one: in terms of the processing of information, which is external and material, each individual is perceived as a single unit, a single actor (who becomes identifiable and unique through his or her state), notwithstanding the many aspects of character or the interesting (or uninteresting) life led by this individual. Anonymous communication or pseudonyms may break down an individual’s single, unitary nature, but only temporarily and within a closed environment, for instance, among an author’s readers or a singer’s listeners in the analogue world. Outside of these occasions, that same individual remains a single unit.

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