Human divergence into hybrid beings

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• In the coming decades, humanity will be confronted by hybrid beings — humans with engineered brain prosthetics, persons in drastically modified bodies, engineered autonomous beings with human cells, and many other new forms — making current ethical frameworks inadequate.hypothesis0.762
  Predictive claim about the near-term emergence of a spectrum of hybrid beings that will shatter current categories
• Representational Divergenceconcept0.757
  Core phenomenon studied: when causal interventions shift internal representations away from the natural distribution
• Harmless Divergenceconcept0.749
  Divergences that occur in the behavioral null-space and do not affect functional claims about the model
• Hybrid bioengineered systems blur distinctions between intelligent machines and conscious life.claim0.741
  Brain-machine interfaces and biological-electronic hybrids demonstrate no principled line between subjectivity and engineering.
• When, and to what extent, is it okay for divergences to occur?question0.741
  Second core research question motivating the theoretical analysis in Section 4
• Pernicious Divergenceconcept0.738
  Divergences that activate hidden pathways or cause dormant behavioral changes, undermining mechanistic claims
• Astronomically large space of possible sentient beings beyond natural evolutionconcept0.730
  Conceptual expansion: merging of biology, AI, synthetic morphology, and engineering creates agents with unfamiliar compositions requiring new assessment frameworks.
• Non-human intelligenceconcept0.726
  Intelligences distinct from human minds, including AI and artificial life agents.