Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book.. .. an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

Scarlett Thomas
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In this quote, Jean Baudrillard describes a world where people are the only thing that exists. Without people, there is no life. Without physical things, there can be no life. In a way, this quote says that the physical world is the only thing that truly matters.

What we do and say doesn't matter, except in relation to other people. It's not important what we think, because if we think it, someone else might think it too. What matters is what other people think of us.

This idea applies to both real life and cyborg life. In real life, we can have infinite lives just by being good to other people and never doing anything wrong. In cyborg life, we can have an infinite number of lives by being good to ourselves through self-reflection and self-improvement.

Source: The End Of Mr. Y

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