There is an interesting, related theory hailing from philosophers Andy Park and David Chalmers. The Theory of Extended Mind asserts that, while your consciousness (whatever that may be) does seem squarely anchored between your ears, your cognition is a distributed entity that – yes – is characteristically if not uniquely “of human brains” but need not solely be located within them.
On an arc and trajectory from language to data stream, we have learned to outsource and offset our cognitive (self-)organisational functions to technologies. It is of course largely a delayed cost as our technologies incur many distributed processing burdens upon our minds and lives.
The unacknowledged elephant in the room is that we are now critically dependent upon our technologies to engage with, mediate and translate the runaway complexity of the overwhelming technologically-saturated experience that life has become for most of us. We now outsource our organisational logic and existential obligations to digital systems upon which we critically depend.
We can not relax because these external digital artefacts and systems are part of us. For better and for worse, we now are our technologies and they inhabit us every bit as much as we inhabit them.
Daedelus Kite 