@article{2021:soekadar:on_the_ver,
title = {On The Verge of the Hybrid Mind},
year = {2021},
note = {Recent advances in neurotechnology allow for an increasingly tight
integration of the human brain and mind with artificial cognitive
systems, blending persons with technologies and creating an assemblage
that we call a hybrid mind. In some ways the mind has always been a
hybrid, emerging from the interaction of biology, culture (including
technological artifacts) and the natural environment. However, with
the emergence of neurotechnologies enabling bidirectional flows of
information between the brain and AI-enabled devices, integrated into
mutually adaptive assemblages, we have arrived at a point where the
specific examination of this new instantiation of the hybrid mind is
essential. Among the critical questions raised by this development are
the effects of these devices on the user’s perception of the self,
and on the user’s experience of their own mental contents. Questions
arise related to the boundaries of the mind and body and whether the
hardware and software that are functionally integrated with the body
and mind are to be viewed as parts of the person or separate artifacts
subject to different legal treatment. Other questions relate to how to
attribute responsibility for actions taken as a result of the
operations of a hybrid mind, as well as how to settle questions of the
privacy and security of information generated and retained within a
hybrid mind.},
journal = {Morals & Machines},
pages = {30--43},
author = {Soekadar, Surjo and Chandler, Jennifer and Ienca, Marcello and Bublitz, Christoph},
volume = {1},
number = {1}
}