Addressable Embodiment - Bryant McGill

# Addressable Embodiment **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Embodiment / Identity / Networked Agency **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Remote Embodiment|Remote Embodiment]], [[wiki/Receiving Substrate|Receiving Substrate]], [[wiki/Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution|Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution]] --- ## Definition **Addressable Embodiment** is the condition in which a body functions as a network-reachable endpoint through which nonlocal agency can perceive, act and appear socially present. ## Context The embodiment is simultaneously body, address, session host, receiving substrate and social identity surface. Once access can be reassigned, visible bodily identity no longer reliably proves which subject is acting. [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]] supplies the cross-layer case. [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] supplies remote replica embodiment. Both show that technical addressability must be separated from authority to enter, duration of occupancy, access to memories and permission to represent the local person. ## Governance Context An addressable body requires authenticated sessions, privilege boundaries, occupancy indicators, native consent, revocation, provenance and recovery. Treating possession of the channel as permission to become the person collapses access into identity. ## Key Insight **When a body becomes an endpoint, embodiment needs an access constitution.** ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Homuncular flexibility isn't the only source of hints about how weird human experience might get in the future. There also questions related to language, memory, and other aspects of cognition, as well as hypothetical prospects for engineering changes in the brain. But in this one area, there's an indication of high weirdness to come, and I find that prospect dangerous, but in a beautiful and seductive way. "Thrilling" might be a better word." > **— Jaron Lanier**, *2006, Edge Annual Question, “What Is Your Dangerous Idea?”* [[reminders/Identity/Human Experience May Become Beautifully Strange by Jaron Lanier|Human Experience May Become Beautifully Strange by Jaron Lanier]] ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]] and [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]. ## See Also [[wiki/Native Displacement|Native Displacement]], [[wiki/Transition Architecture|Transition Architecture]], [[wiki/Authority–Identity Separation|Authority–Identity Separation]] ## Relationships  This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material.