Self and personal identity
hybridization and expansion
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2023.1.44072Keywords:
Hybrid self, Personal identity, Extended mind, Socially extended mind, Andy Clark.Abstract
This article aims to show, based on a reading of Andy Clark’s extended mind hypotheses and his absorption of the functionalist consequences, that the concepts of self and personal identity are naturally diluted in the body and in the world. We defend that the movement performed by the integration of Clark’s proposal with Richard Heersmink’s autobiographical self and Shaun Gallagher’s pattern theory of self is a movement of hybridization, which gives rise to the image of an ecological and multifaceted self, as well as a more permeable notion of personal identity. After all, while Clark sheds light on functionalist movements that extend the mind and the self in the world, Heersmink emphasizes the role of self-narrative in the design of the self, as well as the socially extended character of the self and the relationships between it and personal identity. Gallagher, in turn, reiterates the relevance of both this social dimension and the conception of a thesis that expresses this diversified character. More specifically, in this process we will have the emergence of a hybrid self.
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