As AL displaces AI the way is open to a more informed understanding of this condition. The search for rational essentials of mental life was bound to fail, since they were never there to be found. Floating between the artificial and the natural, AL is a cybernetic Ukiyo-e. Minds are not holders or beholders of Platonic forms nor does experience flow according to Cartesian necessity. Minds, whether natural, artificial or a hybid, participate in the life of self-organising forms.
Nothing has enduring self-identity.
Minds, forms and actions, lacking any persistent essence, are malleable, not immutable. Just as Rachel Armstrong depicts the naturalisation of the mutant, so psychology now depicts minds as they might become, not as they are. The artificial hybridises with the real as the euphenic program of posthuman evolution expands to include the mind as well as the body.