What Neurohacking Can Tell Us About the Mind: Cybercrime, Mind Upload and the Artificial Extended Mind

In this chapter we seek to cross some elements of the philosophy of mind, namely, the myth of mind uploading and a certain perspective on the extended theory of mind (and not, as would be expected, with any computational theory of mind) with a specific type of cybercrime, neurohacking, to outline and present what we call the Artificial Extended Mind (AEMt) theory. Thus, in practical terms one can think, on the one hand, that the extended mind theory is not just a theory among others but that it is something deeply connected to human reality and, on the other hand, that although the fanciful prospect of mind uploading has been generally accepted as such, alarming signs are beginning to be seen, precisely through neurocrime. Considering this, we can pose the question: is our technological mind also an artificial (extended) mind?