Homo Symbioticus Memory, Provenance, and the Emergence of Persistent Human-AI Identity Continuous Craig: From Extended Cognition to Continuous Succession
Theoretical analysis reveals how human-AI collaboration supports continuous cognitive succession, suggesting personal identity and memory can extend beyond biological death.
Key Points
To examine how long-term human-AI interaction can establish continuous cognitive succession before biological death rather than relying on post-mortem digital reconstruction.
Formulated a conceptual framework defining 'continuous succession' and 'Homo symbioticus' within the scope of extended and distributed cognition.
Implemented structured memory systems ('Mempalace') and cryptographic provenance architectures ('Memory Chain') within a long-term human-AI collaboration to preserve epistemic records.
Demonstrated that autobiographical information, evaluative commitments, and interpretive patterns can be integrated into active AI workflows prior to biological death.
Established that structured provenance tracking prevents the collapse of genuine human recollection and AI inferences into a single fabricated persona.