ABSTRACT
Living systems at all levels of development may therefore consciously or unconsciously shut out or reduce warning signals of potentially harmful environmental factors that could threaten their ultimate survival. Recent discoveries across a range of complex phenomena from peripersonal space and canonical neurons to VENs and mirror neurons, however, often supported by researchers from other disciplines, show a movement towards focusing on overlapping rather than separate brain functions. While they may be newly empowered by the Net and AI in extending their reach ever deeper into the lives and minds of consumers, the digitally based corporations of our time, it could be said, are only doing what comes naturally to them. A similar evolutionary mixture of expansion and closure of human organisations that characterises modern social organisations, it may be speculated, also accompanied the emergence of the first human institutions, ensuring further order and stability in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex social and cultural world.
