Thoughts on mind uploading and the autobiographical voice of cyborgs
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Artificial organs, autobiographical narrative, cyborgs, decentralized identity, mind uploading
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With this article, I intend to unmask the metaphor of mind uploading because the bodily neutrality upon which it is based is becoming less and less evident. In the first section, I will present Moravec's and Kurzweil's conception of mind uploading to demonstrate that the same type of mind cannot exist in bodies with different properties. On the contrary, uploading the mind into an artificial body opens up the possibility of decentralization of identity, as it allows for the blending of different identities originating from the same brain. To illustrate this, I will reference the android Bina48. In the second section, I will explore the decentralization of identity through the autobiographical voice of the artificial organs of the cybernetic hybrid, based on the arguments presented in Andy Clark's Natural Born Cyborg. In this section, I will explain what the narrative sense of self entails.
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Yehya, N. (2020). Pornocultura, género e identidad. Un selfie a las puertas del Apocalipsis. En VV. AA., Cíborgs, zombis y quimeras. La cibercultura y las cibervanguardias (pp. 145-159; F. Fernández Giordano, Ed.). Holobionte.
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Afanador López, T. (2024). Thoughts on mind uploading and the autobiographical voice of cyborgs. Co-Herencia, 21(41), 150–177. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.21.41.06
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Tatiana Afanador López, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Doctora en Filosofía Contemporánea. Profesora de cátedra de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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