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Artificial Endosomatization / Onloading

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Cavalli's speculative reversal of Stiegler's exosomatization. Where technogenesis has meant offloading memory, knowledge and agency into external technical organs (exosomatic), artificial endosomatization asks whether AI-driven sensory technologies — haptics, immersive media, wearable sensors — could, "with a certain degree of autonomy," return what they learn from humans into bodily cognition: onloading external computation into embodied, enactive, somatic learning rather than extracting data for analysis outside the body. Pitched against sensor-mediated "behaviorism" (Lazega) and explicitly not transhumanist enhancement. The compendium's abstract renames it "intrasomatization," since Stiegler/Lotka's endosomatic evolution is strictly genetic. The mechanism is left as open questions.

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