Abstract: Confronting the profound challenges digital technology poses to human cognition and identity, Thomas Fuchs integrates perspectives from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and psychiatry to reshape the understanding of the human through the lens of embodied anthropology. In its practical impetus, the work responds to the radical trans-humanist claims advanced by AI; theoretically, it leverages the bridge that embodiment forms between neuroscience and phenomenological experience to construct an analytical framework for comparing “brain consciousness” with “embodied life”. Within this framework, by establishing the ontological priority of embodied life, Fuchs shifts the critical focus from the sub-personal level of cognitive structures to the primordial inner affectivity of life. This approach advances a turn from classical phenomenology toward an embodied anthropology grounded in a realism of perception, thereby furnishing a new systematic framework for understanding the mind-body relationship in the digital age. The explanatory power of the theory, however, constrained by its personalist stance and a traditional perspective that opposes anthropology to Christian theology, requires further development to adequately account for emerging embodied experiences such as digital symbiosis and complex bodily alienation.

Key words: artificial intelligence, embodied perception, sub-personal, reality of life, embodied anthropology