# Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark > “In the near future, software agents whose profiles have evolved alongside those of a specific individual will count as part of the individual person. To say that I use those software agents will be strictly false. Instead, my brain and the various personalized manifestations of new technology will constitute integrated thinking things.” > **— Andy Clark**, *2000, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [That the Human Mind is Less and Less In the Head](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11365) — Edge published this exact, continuous passage in its 2000 Annual Question collection, *WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?*. The response page preserves the surrounding argument and qualifications. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2000 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2000 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response cohort and this passage's promotion status. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Host Infrastructure Overview]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Extended Mind Thesis|Extended Mind Thesis]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Personal Identity|Personal Identity]] - [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] - [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]] - [[wiki/Identity|Identity]] - [[wiki/Extended Mind Thesis|Extended Mind Thesis]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “In the near future, software agents whose profiles have evolved alongside those of a specific individual will count as part of the individual person. To say that I use those software agents will be strictly false. Instead, my brain and the various personalized manifestations of new technology will constitute integrated thinking things.” — Andy Clark, 2000, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-andy-clark-personalized-software-become-part-person ```