Fiscal redistribution like the aff allows the state to open the mind to ‘somatic surveillance’ and attempt to modify the subject’s psyche to maximize their output.

The cybernetic theory of consciousness could support a highly nuanced understanding of networks, the fuzzy boundaries between the machine and the brain and the technical nonconscious that reconfigures all of us as citizens and consumers, without making clear distinctions between the conscious and the nonconscious as modulated by deep technological structures (Hayles, 2016; Sampson, 2017). Instead, how- ever, the neuroliberal state adopts an analytical perspective that opens the porous borders of the human mind to ‘somatic surveillance’ (Hayles, 2016: 43) in quasi-scientific neuroliberal experimental set-ups analysing group behaviour from the outside without permission. Indeed, neurolib- eral policy experiments, such as the basic income trial, draw on the mysteries of the human soul but have no genuine interest in it unless microscale modifications of human cognition offer techno-rational solutions to organise the disorganised and control the uncontrolled in stabilising finances.