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The global ecological conscience becames unavoidable both because of the obvious environmental devastation and because of the expanded awareness of that through the Internet.

Every instance of deforestation, the melting of every glacier, every territory where drought advances, as well as the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere and in the seas is monitored by the sensitive nervous systems of satellites, whose data are being sent back to the Internet’s nervous system, which in its turn is connected to individuals’ nervous systems, and in their turn connected between themselves through the Net.

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The heart of the binary code

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Everybody knows that computers work with the binary 0-1 code at their core. Even though there are projects to build computers based on neural nets or quantum computers, still none of these have progressed beyond theoretical models. The inner structure of a tool reflects the ways it is used just as the molecular structure of a material reflects the macro features such as weight, texture and resistance.

The computer is a tool that reasons and builds the world in a dualistic attitude. In the computer programming languages used to develop software, one of the main logical structures is the "if-then-else" construct that allows decisions to be made based on choices and dualities.

The dualistic binary modality of functioning is typical of the rational thinking mind. The computer as an extension of the mind just mirrors the way the thinking mind works. The ego psychology tells us the structures of the mind itself has been born through the first dualistic event, when in childhood the child begins to split pleasurable-good-love-warm-care sensations from  unpleasurable-bad-fear-abandonment-hunger ones.

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