For Emile Benveniste, the invocation of the pro-

noun "I" is then the defining act of personhood - the individual integrating separate experiences into a "psychic unity" with a "permanence of consciousness", distinguished from otherness by the defining act of invoking the word
"YOU."


When denoting entities
outside of this polarized relationship of first and second person,
we speak in the third person of nouns & pro-nouns
that have fixed referents.

Language is thus characterized by the human ability
to distinguish the referent for first and second person pronouns from context,
and while it is not entirely clear that no machine can have this ability,
computers operating over the Internet
do not function this way.

Since computers can be easily programmed
to associate symbolic references with physical relationships,
internet machines refer to themselves and to each other in the third person,
using the fixed names and addresses assigned to them,
directly or indirectly, by human administrators.

Similarly unlike human speech,
the different aspects of a computer's "personality" and "experience" remain fragmented, with various
capabilities operating independently
in separate programs.

In some cases, such as web browsing,
most personal computers can initiate internet communication,
but cannot respond to reciprocal initiatives
from other computers.

For example,
home computers can visit remote web sites,
but typically have no web site of their own for others to visit,
and no facility to provide remote access to such a site
if it existed ~ web sites are generally
"hosted" on computers specifically
configured to provide
that service.
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