Spyridon Orestis Palermos

Data, Metadata, Mental Data? Privacy and the Extended Mind.

AJOB Neuroscience 2023 Spyridon Orestis Palermos

It has been recently suggested that if the Extended Mind thesis is true, mental privacy might be under serious threat. In this paper, I look into the details of this claim and propose that one way of dealing with this emerging threat requires that data ontology be enriched with an additional kind of data-viz., mental data. I explore how mental data relates to both data and metadata and suggest...