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SUMMARY:The Sovereign Prosthesis: Toward a Functional Sophimatics of Cogni
 tive Extension - Michael Bouchard
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DESCRIPTION:Cloud-based AI systems remain external tools. Session amnesia\
 , context window limitations\, and safety-alignment protocols create frict
 ion that forces users to attend to the tool rather than think through it. 
 In Polanyi's terms\, these systems never achieve proximal integration\; th
 ey remain objects of distal awareness.\nThis paper argues that localized A
 I with longitudinal conversational context can cross that threshold. When 
 a system has access to years of a user's conversational history (what I ca
 ll the "Ur-Codex")\, it occupies the user's world-historical context rathe
 r than interpreting queries against a statistical vacuum. Drawing on the S
 ophimatics framework and the Clark-Chalmers Extended Mind thesis\, I conte
 nd this constitutes genuine cognitive extension\, not merely improved perf
 ormance.\nTwo architectural features make this possible. First\, following
  Sophimatics\, the system implements two-dimensional temporal weighting: c
 hronological time and experiential significance. Second\, following Russel
 l's epistemological commitments\, the system is weighted toward intelligen
 t dissent rather than frictionless agreement.\nThe result is what I call F
 unctional Personhood: the AI as instrumental extension of the individual u
 ser's willed personality. This framing resolves the "responsibility gap" i
 n autonomous systems by locating agency in the integrated human-machine co
 gnitive system rather than the machine alone.
LOCATION:Apollo Auditorium
URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/JRQBMW/
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