Dr. Levy will read a chapter from her soon to be released book, On Apprehending the new other: alien intelligence and the innovation drive. This chapter deals with the form change that many of us are undergoing, owing to AI-driven personal technology, from humans into ‘digital people’. The metamorphosis will be explored through theories of conscious, unconscious and cognitive mental life as well as via personal vignettes. Dr. Levy tracks a tendency throughout human history to use entertainment as a “container” for transformation of psychic experience, and argues that AI-driven digital technology has only enhanced the function of previous ‘entertainment containers’ in joining humanity together through shared states of consciousness. This chapter deals with the question of whether resistance to technology serves any useful function and offers thoughts on how it might.