Modern society has a lot in common with a schizophrenic patient…

As people become more like machines, machines become more like people–both in the modern world and in schizophrenia. Schizophrenic individuals often seem to inhabit the ‘uncanny valley’–a term that virtual reality and video game designers use to refer to that unsettling, liminal realm in which one is uncertain whether something or someone is alive or dead, real or unreal.

— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/aU3khC6