# Exhalation  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ted Chiang]] - Full Title: Exhalation - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Tags: [[shortlist]] - Summary: It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of life and, as a corollary, the means by which life will one day end. - URL: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > As I contemplated this vista, I wondered, where was my body? The conduits which displaced my vision and action around the room were in principle no different from those which connected my original eyes and hands to my brain. For the duration of this experiment, were these manipulators not essentially my hands? Were the magnifying lenses at the end of my periscope not essentially my eyes? I was an everted person, with my tiny, fragmented body situated at the center of my own distended brain. It was in this unlikely configuration that I began to explore myself. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hpeb13982vg195789y9fjcqy))