Lost in the Shell

<p>What happens to law when the human body becomes replicable the mind readable and identity programmable?</p><p>This book investigates how artificial intelligence neurotechnology and synthetic biology are dismantling the legal foundations of personhood. From biometric doubles and cognitive extraction to bodyoids – human bodies grown without consciousness – the author reveals how legal categories struggle to keep pace with technological realities.</p><p>Blending legal theory philosophy and science the book exposes a profound crisis: law no longer knows what a 'person' is. This timely and provocative work is essential for scholars in law bioethics and technology studies seeking to understand how the post-human era challenges the very structure of the legal order. The future is no longer science fiction. It is a legal vacuum.</p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of law public policy AI and ethics. It will also be a handy guide for practicing lawyers. </p>