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Hacking The Extended Mind: The Security Implications Of The New Metaphysics, Robin L. Zebrowski
Hacking The Extended Mind: The Security Implications Of The New Metaphysics, Robin L. Zebrowski
Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) Proceedings
Computer security expert Paul Syverson has argued that there is a computer security equivalent of gaslighting: where a clever adversary could convince some system that some component that is not really a part of the system is in fact a part of the system. If non-biological items from our environments (or even pieces of our environments themselves) can be part of our minds (the standard Extended Mind hypothesis, EM), they are therefore part of our selves, and therefore subject to Syverson’s worry about boundary in a way that has not been explored before. If some version of EM holds, then …