RT Article
T1 Mind Uploading and Embodied Cognition: A Theological Response
JF Zygon
VO 54
IS 1
SP 191
OP 206
A1 Lorrimar, Victoria 1986-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1662498179
AB One of the more radical transhumanist proposals for future human being envisions the uploading of our minds to a digital substrate, trading our dependence on frail, degenerating "meat" bodies for the immortality of software existence. Yet metaphor studies indicate that our use of metaphor operates in our bodily inhabiting of the world, and a phenomenological approach emphasizes a "hybridity" to human being that resists traditional mind/body dichotomies. Future scenarios envisioning mind uploading and disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) share an apocalyptic category with more traditional religious eschatologies, though they differ markedly in content; therefore, the insights of embodied cognition and their uptake in technological innovation are considered as they apply to theological concerns. Theology often functions in debates over the technological future to critique or to caution. However, theologians may learn from their technological dialogue partners when it comes to the future of embodiment and its implications for the construction and practice of theology.
K1 Artificial Intelligence
K1 Embodied Cognition
K1 mind uploading
DO 10.1111/zygo.12481