The cyborg on the threshold of humanity: redefining the natural person

Authors

  • Hellen Marinho Amorim Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Renato César Cardoso Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/rbd2019.0.27067

Keywords:

cyborg, artificial intelligence, robotics, body, nature, person

Abstract

It is the person who inaugurates the legal existence of being: without her, it is difficult to reach agreement on the specificities of rights and duties. In the midst of this relationship, transhumanism, philosophy that advocates for an enhanced human being in order to transcend its biological nature, finds practical support in the interaction of technology with biology, resulting in the gradual expansion of modes of human "being", where the cyborg emerges as a differentiated human potential in vulnerabilities and potentialities compared to modern Homo sapiens. Thus, the legal personality considered contemporaneously is affected and rethinking its formulation becomes necessary. It is maintained that the unprecedented possibilities of protection and accountability of the cyborg imply its legal existence through a new person, the unnatural person.

Author Biographies

Hellen Marinho Amorim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Orientanda do curso de Mestrado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Bacharel em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás.

Renato César Cardoso, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Professor de Direito e Ciências do Estado na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pós-Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de Barcelona, Doutor em Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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2019-06-03

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Amorim, H. M., & Cardoso, R. C. (2019). The cyborg on the threshold of humanity: redefining the natural person. Revista De Bioética Y Derecho, (46), 67–84. https://doi.org/10.1344/rbd2019.0.27067

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2019: Núm. 46 - jul - Dossier on artificial intelligence, robotics and the internet of things, coordinated by M. Navarro-Michel

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