"I'm sorry," Bix interrupted, thinking he'd misheard. "You're doing what?"
"We can upload an animal's perceptions," Kacia said. "Using brain sensors. For example, I can capture a portion of a cat's consciousness and then view it with a headset exactly as if I am the cat. Ultimately, this will help us to learn how different animals perceive and what they remember— basically, how they think."
Bix tingled with sudden alertness.
"The technology is still very crude," Kacia said. "But already, there is controversy: Are we crossing a line by breaching the mind of another sentient creature? Are we opening a Pandora's box?"
"We're back to the problem of free will," Eamon said. "If God is omnipotent, does that make us puppets? And if we are puppets, are we better off knowing that or not?"
"To hell with God," Fern said. "I'm worried about the Internet.'
"By which you mean an all-seeing, all-knowing entity that may be predicting and controlling your behavior, even when you think you're choosing for yourself?"
Affordances of Digital Technology, Surveillance Capitalism