Google Glass, a new technological platform, informes: "this is where I am, what I am doing, what I see, and who I am with." In a way, it allows others to view the world, through our eyes.
We always wish we could step beyond the container of our bodies. Perhaps social media is an effort to do just this.
Lingis's Outside explores the difference between our internal and external selves. Although we feel that our identity is specific to our skin, the expressions and emotions conveyed are a result of the deep structures built within our subconscious beings.
It seems these halves (internal and external beings) carry equal weight in the existence of a being.
Yet now, a result of technology, we are able to replace our failing organs with another's. Life continues. This artificiality is not just internally true. We are now starting to move into an existence where we can see the world through another's eyes.
If we we are able to experience the world, outside of our bodies, do we need them in order to exist?
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