Toward a Science of Augmented Agency

Abstract

To supervise and enjoy the benefits of digitalization, humanity must develop the science of augmented agency. This future science will be multidisciplinary, joining the human and computer sciences, as well as neuroscience and related fields of human science and engineering, but also going further. In fact, the novelties of digital augmentation transcend the conceptual architecture of modernity and its problematics. Digitalized humanity is truly exceptional. To describe these\xa0phenomena, science needs fresh concepts, categories, and constructs. This chapter offers proposals in this regard. It maps the emerging field of augmented agency, its core categories, mechanisms, and dilemmas, and thereby looks forward to a new science of digitally augmented agency.