Brains working towards machine consciousness

I was asked to give my thoughts on Digital Identity and Identity - how they interact and relate to one another. I haven't got round to writing what I really wanted to, so this is just a quick brain dump of some of the issues.

This Is Me is an Eduserv funded project to design learning materials to help with education about forming, maintaining and securing your personal identity on the web, otherwise known as their Digital Identity (DI). The initial stages involve collecting people's stories about DI, whether cautionary, advisory, entertaining or just plain educational.