ABSTRACT
We can distinguish three interrelated tasks that lead step-by-step from simple tools assisting humans in their ordinary lives to a radical redefinition of what it means to be human:
1 personality enhancement: increasing the cognitive, affective and social functioning and scope of a person through artificial means like information technology;
2 personality capture: entering substantial information about a person’s mental and emotional functioning into a computer or information system, sufficiently detailed to permit a somewhat realistic simulation; and
3 personality emulation: allowing a captured personality to act and perceive in the world, by means of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, sensors or possible biological embodiment.
