Is the Mind the Tool-User or a Tool?

The meaning of life for the self that the brain imagines

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What were the first inventions? The standard answer is that they were stone tools, such as axes, daggers, and arrowheads.

But if we think more broadly about technology, we should see that the earliest tools were rather our “immaterial” selves, the patterns of thought that make up…