human co-evolution with technology

The idea that technology evolves independently from humans and has needs of its own, creating a symbiotic relationship with its creators. This runs counter to the idea that humans are and have always been in conscious control of the development of technology.

An anecdote was shared with me that early humans were making and using tools together before they had fully evolved the mental capacity to consciously know that they were making and using tools. They were making things and finding things before their uses were clear, and once they became useful humans discovered new ways to use them and combine them to do more and greater things.

This leads to the the idea that technology has a will of its own that runs parallel to and predates the human awareness of technology.

Mark Fisher suggested a similar concept that true psychedelia, beyond drugs, is a sort of Cybernetics mixed with materialism: expanding and exploring what is already in the mind and making it a reality, and "a general willingness to deploy material technologies of non-self in order to explore forms of consciousness."