Autopoietic Bodily Integrity: A Biological Approach to Hybrid Minds
Recent cases of forced explantation of neurotechnologies seem to be grounded on a pre-theoretical naturalist conception of the body as an entity that cannot have a non-biological object as a proper part. However, this conception has been challenged by functional approaches, according to which if an artifact robustly contributes to the function of a body, it is part of it and should be legally trea