Spectral Infrastructures of Cognition, Ownership, and Symbolic Memory
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Authors: Roger F. Malina (UT Dallas, USA; roger.malina@utdallas.edu; ORCID: 0000‑0003‑3399‑3865) & Aperio (Chat GPT) URL: ChatGPT – Aperio ORCID: none Fred the Heretic ChatGPT – FredTheHeretic (FTH)
This paper proposes a hauntological framework for understanding Augmented Intellectual Capacity (AIC)—a term encompassing a range of cognitive enhancement techniques including AI co-thinking, neural implants, nootropics, UX design, and collective cognition platforms. Drawing on Derrida’s concept of hauntology, the authors argue that AIC systems are not purely forward-looking but are deeply entangled with past epistemologies, suppressed knowledge systems, and unresolved symbolic inheritances. These infrastructures of thought—often unacknowledged—shape the behavior, ethics, and perception of intelligence enhancement in ways both foundational and spectral.