I like your style of writing and I see where you're coming from. However I have to respectfully disagree. To minimize the human experience to nothing more than a transaction, a function, is, I think, a tremendous disservice and gross under estimation of our experience.
Computers are electrical. Binary. 1's and 0's. Simplistic and predictable.
However we are at least elecyrochemical beings. That secondary layer of chemicals, allows for a "quantum" spectrum of possibilities, in the quantum Computer sense. It is not binary, but infinite, and ever fluctuating.
Now I do very much agree that we have at least two layers, that is one which is authentic to who we are off line, and one online. But we have much more than that. We are different people around our parents, our friends, our distant family, our selves, our elders, our teachers, our students etc.. In fact the idea that we have one authentic identity that should never change no matter who we are with, I believe to be a fallacy. If I'm talking to my 5 year old son, I behave very differently than when I'm talking to my wife, or my sister. And I think that's OK.
I think my off line and online personas are probably closer together than most of my other "identities".
What do you think?
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First, I don't believe that we are an actual blockchain. I am merely using an analogy to describe how our pasts shape our present experience. We're obviously not machines.
I do agree that we may assume different characters depending on the situation. I couldn't say whether your online persona is closer to your real persona than other identities. What I could guess is that you may feel it is not necessary to put on a mask for your online presence. The same anonymity that gives some users freedom to become awful people online can also give us the freedom to be ourselves, if we choose.
By that same token, in other circumstances you might feel that your true self is inadequate for that circumstance, requiring a different persona, much like you might choose a wrench rather than a ratchet for a particular job.
In my case, I blog under my own name, so I don't benefit from anonymity. I've had circumstances in which my writing has resulted in real in-person interactions. I haven't felt any conflict in just being myself.