When you turn on your email, the cursor of your mouse becomes the fingerptip of your hand in the digital world. A digital finger of your mind. The presence of your finger is recognized by the device and that starts to interact with it. As if it took it and gave it a second life. This version of you that has been imprinted on the platform takes on new features and its information is being recorded and sorted. So in a sense, it becomes this new you. It is still you but also it isn't.

You think we would not say that it is just a recording of my past interactions?

It seems like it isn't. How can a past recording have a life on its own? Isn't it only static? It would not undergo change, and it would not experience difference. But this piece not only experiences it all, but interacts with the environment so the environment changes and adjusts to accomodate this piece of me. It is indeed a strange interaction because it takes the agency away from me and I no longer have to negage. This other me does it instead.