A simplified representation may be necessary for a technological system to act. The ethical problem begins when that representation is treated as sufficient grounds for determining the conditions available to the body from which it was produced. Breathing Room makes this tension spatial. A body enters, becomes a number, contributes to a threshold, and the resulting rule would return to alter the space shared by all bodies inside.

The system therefore does more than perceive presence. It participates in deciding what presence is allowed to change.

If technological environments increasingly sense and respond to bodies, what might it mean for that responsiveness to operate as care rather than merely as control?

Ten.

How can a technological environment respond with care when its rules have already been decided before it encounters the bodies inside it?