ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the power of the body to inform and transform what the self is. Drawing from Indian examples of subtle body travel, where yogis can inhabit the bodies of recently deceased kings, this chapter reexamines the idea of bodily incarnation, suggesting a fermentation model, a “yogurt” model for selfhood. This model is used to then examine the implications of our contemporary technological push towards AI, artificial intelligence as extending human mortality in thinkers like Google engineer Ray Kurzweil, arguing that our contemporary technological model relies on an untenable, and unexamined Cartesian mind-body split.
