The document discusses how electromagnetism extends the mind through technologies like brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and brain-to-brain interfaces (BtBIs) that allow direct communication between brains. It examines case studies of how electromagnetism is enacted through transparent signs where cognitive abilities are enhanced without perceiving the device. The document also looks at how electromagnetism may impact concepts of agency and materiality, presenting philosophical directions of either hyper-embodied or disembodied selves. In concluding, it questions whether the extensions triggered by electromagnetism qualitatively differ from those of previous technologies.
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The Electric Man
1. The Electric
Man
Material Culture and the Case of
Electromagnetism
Material Culture and the Case of
Electromagnetism
Keble College
Oxford, (UK)
January, 23rd
2. The case of electromagnetism
For the first time in our natural history, the medium regulating some functionings of the world
is the same regulating the way our brain works
3. The talk:
in a
nutshell
Extended Mind
Knapping intentions
Enactive Sign
Mark Making Humans
Material Agency
Potter’s Wheel
Brain Computer
Interfaces (BCI’s)
Brain to Brain Interfaces
(BtBI’s)
Hyper-embodied vs
Disembodied selves
METAPLASTICITY
4. Research question:
Is there a qualitative difference between the
extension triggered by electromagnetism if
compared to the ones triggered by previous
technologies?
6. Brain Computer
Interfaces: BCI’s There are at least the following nonmedical applications:
Web Browsing and Navigating Virtual Worlds, Robotic Avatars,
High Throughput Image Search, Lie Detection and Applications in
Law, Monitoring Alertness, Estimating Cognitive Load, Education
and Learning, Security, Identification, and Authentication,
Physical Amplification with Exoskeletons, Mnemonic and
Cognitive Amplification, Applications in Space, Gaming and
Entertainment, Brain-Controlled Art.
Rao, R.P.N., Brain-computer interfacing: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013
7. The case of electromagnetism
Phillip Kennedy
Neurotrophic Electrod
11. The Electromagnetic Sign
Collins, K. L., Guterstam, A., Cronin, J., Olson, J.
D., Ehrsson, H. H., & Ojemann, J. G. (2016).
Ownership of an artificial limb induced by electrical
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Academy of Sciences, 201616305
12. Pais-Vieira, M., Lebedev, M., Kunicki, C., Wang, J., & Nicolelis, M. A. (2013). A brain-to-brain interface for real-time sharing of
sensorimotor information. Scientific reports, 3: 1319
13. (Rao, R. P., Stocco, A., Bryan, M., Sarma, D., Youngquist, T. M., Wu, J., & Prat, C. S. (2014). A direct brain-to-brain interface in humans.
PloS one, 9(11), e111332.)
16. Hyper-embodied vs Disembodied selves
Philosophical arguments from sci-fi stories.
Prosthetic bodies Replicants Mind Upload Singularity
Bostrom, N. (2005). A history of transhumanist thought. Journal of evolution and technology, 14(1), 1-25.
17. Roy Batty
(Blade Runner)
Replicant
Will Custer
(Trascendence)
Mind Upload
The Architect
(Matrix Reloaded)
Singularity
Liam Foxwell
(Black Mirror)
Prosthetic Bodies
Which is the trajectory of our mediated subjectivity?
18. Recap
1) How does electromagnetism extend the mind?
Thanks to BCI’s and BtBI’s.
2) How do we enact electromagnetism?
The transparent sign: we enhance our cognitive abilities without
perceiving the device itself, but living in it as an environment.
3) What does electromagnetism do to material agency?
It presents two philosophical directions: hyper-embodied vs
disembodied selves.
So...
Is there a qualitative difference between the extension triggered
by electromagnetism if compared to the one triggered by
previous technologies?
