Do androids dream of autobiography?
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-2-116-120
Abstract
The modern development of ideas and technologies of artificial intelligence adds practical significance to philosophical debates concerning questions of identity and personal identity. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the advantage of the narrative approach for describing the identity of cybernetic organisms. For this purpose, a mental experiment is formulated to download the consciousness of a scientist into the body of an android. At the end of the article the author discusses a potential hierarchy of narrative criteria.
About the Author
A. D. Blizhenskiy
Tyumen State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BLIZHENSKIY Aleksandr Dmitriyevich, Student of «Journalism: Journalism in a Digital Society: Author and Editorial Work» Faculty, Social Sciences and Humanities Institute
Tyumen
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Blizhenskiy A.D. Do androids dream of autobiography? Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2023;8(2):116-120. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-2-116-120
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