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# Artificial Endosomatization / Onloading

> A working definition written for this wiki from the reading notes; not Antikythera's own wording. From Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/terms/artificial-endosomatization-onloading), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work.

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.

## Appears in

- [Cognition With and Beyond the Brain: Assemblages, Endosomatization, and AI-Driven Sensory Technologies](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra/cognition-with-and-beyond-the-brain) (2025-05-10)
- [Mutual Prediction in Human-AI Coevolution](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra/mutual-prediction-in-human-ai-coevolution) (2025-05-10)
- [Xenophylum: Toward a Synthetic Cambrian Explosion](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra/xenophylum) (2025-05-10)
- [Cognitive Infrastructures](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra) (2025-05-10)

_Glossary generated 2026-09-06._