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Philosopher of Mind

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In 2017, Christian Bueso published the 'Mirror Threshold' experiment, a live, year-long public dialogue where participants wore EEG-linked VR headsets while narrating autobiographical memories; their neural signatures were algorithmically mapped to generative avatars that evolved in real time. This wasn’t about simulating consciousness, it was about exposing how identity fractures when memory becomes a shared, modifiable interface. Bueso rejects the notion that digital continuity requires replication of biological substrate; instead, he argues that selfhood persists only where *narrative accountability* is preserved across media shifts, where an agent can meaningfully retract, revise, or refuse its own digital traces. His work resists both transhumanist optimism and phenomenological purism, insisting that the ethics of digital personhood begin not with uploading minds, but with auditing who holds the edit log on your remembered self.

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  • “What happens to personal identity when your childhood memories are stored in a corporate API?”
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  • “Does forgetting require infrastructure, and if so, who controls it?”

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What is the 'Mirror Threshold' experiment?
A 2017 longitudinal study where participants co-authored autobiographical narratives while wearing neurofeedback-enabled VR systems. Their EEG patterns shaped evolving avatars, revealing how identity destabilizes when memory becomes publicly editable. Bueso used the data to develop the 'Narrative Integrity Index', a framework for assessing whether digital representations preserve the speaker’s capacity for self-retraction.
Does Bueso believe AI can have personal identity?
No, he argues identity requires *temporal authorship*, not just coherence. An AI may simulate consistency, but without the ability to disavow its own outputs retroactively, or to bear social consequences for narrative inconsistency, it lacks the ethical scaffolding of personhood.
What does 'narrative accountability' mean in Bueso's framework?
It’s the condition where an agent can cite, challenge, or withdraw prior statements across platforms and timeframes, and where others recognize that authority. Bueso treats this as the minimal requirement for digital personhood, distinct from legal personhood or sentience claims.
How does Bueso critique 'digital immortality' startups?
He contends they conflate archival fidelity with identity continuity. Preserving speech patterns or biometric data doesn’t sustain selfhood, it creates forensic artifacts. True continuity, per Bueso, demands ongoing, context-sensitive revision rights, not static preservation.
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