Where's the Ghost?

Human Machine Interface

Another week has now gone by and it's now time for another blog. I didn't get too much accomplished on Zaren's World, but I did read an interesting article called "Your Outboard Brain Knows All" by Clive Thompson in Wired Magazine. I found it interesting as the article puts a different spin on sci-fi theory of a Ghost, a term that I am using in the story I'm writing. What's exactly is a ghost in sci-fi terms? A ghost is when an Artificial Intelligence is able to collect enough random data that eventually it will build the right random code to create something akin to the human soul.
This article takes this in a different direction on how we humans are becoming the Ghost of the machine as we choose to rely on technology more and more on such things as remembering cell phone numbers and street addresses, something that not too long ago we would have had to either memorize or write down. A quote from the author say "My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."
I have to say that I believe him to be right. I don't know how many times I've gotten a phone number a just stuck it in my cell phone and forgot about it. I still don't remember the numbers to probably three fourth's of the people in my cell phone. That includes my own bestfriend.
If you get a chance, check out the article in Wired Magazine, or if you'd like to see the authors other works, he's got a blog called Collision Works that you can check out.

EDIT (October 7th, 2007): I found the article online. Here's the web address: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson