When my mobile phone is in my hand, am I the same person as I am when it’s in a different room? In some senses, I’m obviously not. Armed with an internet-connected device, my mathematical and navigational skills are inhumanly remarkable. I can answer billions of questions in an instant (even if not all my answers are accurate). I can communicate with millions of strangers across time and space. I can pretend to be someone else – or a flatteringly filtered version of myself.
Or can I? Is it actually ‘me’ doing these things – or am I simply using various tools to do them for me? It may seem self-evident that ‘I’ am not
