
Legal status and characteristics of a digital human
Author(s) -
O. RADUTNIY
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ìnformacìâ ì pravo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2616-6798
DOI - 10.37750/2616-6798.2021.4(39).248552
Subject(s) - posthuman , consciousness , human rights , humanity , transhumanism , human enhancement , computer science , legal aspects of computing , doctrine , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , sociology , epistemology , law , psychology , political science , the internet , philosophy , world wide web
The article outlines the path that humanity is developing from Homo sapiens to digital human being in three main vectors. The latest high-tech devices have been proven to provide a tight interactive connection with the user, thus gradually becoming an integral part of the biological body and human consciousness, a kind of organs or chains for transmitting nerve signals. The possibility of combining carbon technology (human) with silicon technology (artificial intelligence, implants, robotics) creates a powerful new challenge for legal doctrine, one of the main tasks of which is to describe the legal characteristics of digital human being, determine his or her legal status in the law system. To generalize the concepts of transhuman and posthuman, which operates on transhumanism, the author proposes to use the common term of digital human being. The necessity of directing state regulation to limit or prevent the antisocial use of improved physical and cognitive properties by digital human being is argued. The possibility of quantum immortality is considered. It has been suggested that new rights, responsibilities, and freedoms may emerge that now exist only in theory or even beyond imagination and discussion. They can become the subject of supernatural law as the successor of natural law. The possibility of the transition of the decision-making process from a digital human being to artificial intelligence in its implant, when the brain will continue to receive signals that will form the illusion of free will, is analysed. It is proved that a digital human being must be recognized as a special persona of legal relations.