No they are not. They are a physical medium more akin to physical records than they are the mind.
This is such a ridiculous take it’s hard to take it seriously.
What about retention periods? About about paper copies? Should no data anywhere be regulated because it is somehow this nebulously and poorly defined “extension of the mind?”
> What about retention periods? About about paper copies? Should no data anywhere be regulated because it is somehow this nebulously and poorly defined “extension of the mind?”
and extremal counterpoint to this viewpoint is that all data be regulated because it's all digital and in the cloud.