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No. 70

Cyborg consciousness: a defense of bodily individuality

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2024.i70.10
Submitted
May 1, 2024
Published
2024-12-31

Abstract

The present work develops a constructive criticism of Donna Haraway's “cyborg” concept, based on its interpretation from the enactive approach - or enactivism -. Particularly, the idea of the cyborg as a hybridized creature without any essential parts in its bodily architecture is confronted, for which it refers to the concepts of “individuality” and “consciousness” that this approach to cognitive sciences maintains. The concept of “cyborg consciousness” proposed here allows us to conclude that the cyborg is a creature that has to be thought of from the organismic phenomena of consciousness and individuality, rather than from the body itself.

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