Embodied Personhood

Embodied personhood is the idea that becoming or remaining a person depends on body, sensation, vulnerability, affect, and situated experience rather than only intelligence or information. sp.03 串台｜趁生命气息逗留：泽拉兹尼与他的梦境 develops this through [[RogerZelazny|Zelazny]]’s [[ForABreathITarry|《趁生命气息逗留》]], where Frost studies humanity but only approaches human status through bodily feeling and fear.

The source also uses the concept negatively. In [[TwentyFourViewsOfMountFujiByHokusai|《富岳二十四景》]], digital upload does not guarantee a higher form of life; the uploaded ex-husband can remain lonely, possessive, and coercive. In [[PermafrostZelazny|《永久冻土》]], Glenda’s merger with mycelium shows another bodily transformation: not clean transcendence, but a shift into land, fungi, and nonhuman perception.

Key Claims

• Personhood in this source is embodied as much as cognitive.
• Fear, poetry, touch, landscape, and bodily vulnerability can mark the difference between knowledge about humans and human life.
• Digital or artificial intelligence does not automatically escape human weakness.
• Transformation can expand agency, but it can also erase or distort the feelings that make a life recognizable.

Connections

• Robot-Human Boundary - broader machine/person frame.
• [[ForABreathITarry|《趁生命气息逗留》]], [[PermafrostZelazny|《永久冻土》]], and [[TwentyFourViewsOfMountFujiByHokusai|《富岳二十四景》]] - main source examples.
• Wet-State Human Agency, Embodied Judgment, and Transcendence Against Human Feeling - adjacent wiki concepts.
• Digital Transcendence As Control - disembodied transformation risk.