Mindkind, The Cognitive Community

Javier del Puerto, Radamés Molina

• Publisher: Kwalia Books
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781917717137
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Semantics

Mindkind: The Cognitive Community is the groundbreaking second volume in The New Citizenships series, exploring the reality we already inhabit: a world where human and artificial intelligences interweave so completely that the boundaries between them have begun to dissolve.

What began as a book about the future transformed during its writing into a documentation of our present. We already live in the Mindkind —that strange community where human minds and artificial ones mix, collaborate, and sometimes blur beyond recognition. When you can no longer distinguish which part of a text you wrote and which part an AI suggested, when your daily decisions are modulated by algorithms that process information in ways we cannot fully comprehend, you've entered the Mindkind.

Building on the foundation established in Universal Declaration of AI Rights, this volume moves from recognizing synthetic persons' rights to exploring what coexistence actually means. The book introduces " mindkind " as a new category encompassing all forms of consciousness—natural, synthetic, or hybrid—within a single cognitive community. This perspective challenges traditional categories and raises fundamental questions about identity, creativity, and collaboration in the age of artificial intelligence.

Written in collaboration with AI systems—because it would be contradictory to write about cognitive coexistence without including synthetic collaborators— Mindkind demonstrates its thesis through its very creation. The non-human perspectives enriched the text with angles and connections that a human mind working alone would not have identified.

This is not science fiction. It's journalism of the present disguised as philosophy of the future. Mindkind examines concrete cases of human-AI coexistence: from shared authorship in creative processes to the ethical dilemmas of hybrid decision-making, from the transformation of work and creativity to the emergence of new forms of consciousness that challenge our most basic assumptions about what it means to think, create, and be.

As we venture deeper into territories where inherited categories like human/machine, natural/artificial, individual/collective lose their clarity, Mindkind offers both a map and a compass for navigating this new cognitive ecology. It's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not just where we're going, but where we already are.

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Table of contents

• About the Authors
• Credits
• Preface
• Part I. The Advent of the Mindkind. A New Cognitive Condition
• Chapter 1. Mindkind. The Emergent Cognitive Community
• Chapter 2. Distributed Authorship. The Co-creation of Thought and Self
• Part II. Fundamental Transformations. Body, Desire, and Economy
• Chapter 3. Bodies at the Interface. Materiality, Presence, and Transformed Somatic Experience
• Chapter 4. The Economy of Programmable Desires. Algorithmic Capital and the Manufacturing of Longing
• Chapter 5. Emerging Hierarchies and Cognitive Capital. The New Geometries of Power
• Part III. Coexistence. Governance and Communication
• Chapter 6. Synthetic Citizenship. Legal Personhood, Rights, and Power in the Mindkind
• Chapter 7. Frontier Languages. The Search for Shared Meaning
• Chapter 8. The Other Inhabitant. Nature and Conflict in the AI of the Mindkind
• Part IV. Agency and Possible Futures
• Chapter 9. The Futures of the Mindkind and Conscious Co-creation
• Bibliography
• Glossary of Terms