TY - JOUR
TI - Klon umysłu, sobowtór, umysłowy bliźniak? Nieśmiertelność jako nieludzki inny
AU - Nowaczyk-Basińska, Katarzyna
TI - Klon umysłu, sobowtór, umysłowy bliźniak? Nieśmiertelność jako nieludzki inny
AB - 
	Mindclone, Doppelgänger, Mental Twin? Immortality as Non-human Other?

	 

	American project LifeNaut promotes technologically-mediated immortality and encourages to collect digital data (mindfiles) and biological material (biofiles) to prolong the life of a person after his/her death. In this paper I wonder how the procedure of gathering information brings us closer to creating a human look-alike and exceeding the mortality limits, analyzing the prototype of this idea – a humanoid robot BINA48. I invoke the concept of the uncanny valley to consider the issues of functional and external similarity of a robot and human as well as genetic determinism (in the context of Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s work), wondering how the instructions contained in the DNA can contribute to the creation of a faithful human equivalent. The arguments presented 

	in this paper show that the archiving and processing of digital, as well as biological, data only leads to speculation based on a set of procedures and methods. There is no double-man, but his subjective representation. In addition, projects of technologically constructed immortality contribute to the broadening/redefinition of the concept of human, but so far, they do not guarantee life without death (immortality).
VL - 2018
IS - Numer 1 (35)
PY - 2018
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 33
EP - 47
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.18.003.8590
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/klon-umyslu-sobowtor-umyslowy-blizniak-niesmiertelnosc-jako-nieludzki-inny
KW - immortality
KW - mindfiles
KW - biofiles
KW - uncanny valley
KW - genetic determinism
KW - Doppelgänger