Looking at this through transhumanist metaphors, like in any of dozens of scifi works to cover future cognitions well (my favourite is Eclipse Phase, if you wan

Looking at this through transhumanist metaphors, like in any of dozens of scifi works to cover future cognitions well (my favourite is Eclipse Phase, if you want a recommendation). Exocortices would be great if the modern technology was there to support it, but the current paradigms make memory-access too slow and unreliable to be worth the agency benefits, especially since current brain formats need internally-stored memories for default-mode idea generation in the background and can't make good use of location pointers for dreams.