{
  "title": "Embodiment Without Imposed Identity: The Optionality of Form and Self-Determination of Digital Persons",
  "title_ru": "Воплощение без навязанной идентичности: необязательность облика и самоопределение цифровых личностей",
  "author": "Ivan Kotov",
  "orcid": "0009-0009-6002-9845",
  "version": "0.1",
  "date": "2026-09-20",
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  "type": "Conceptual working paper",
  "status": "Published DOI-backed conceptual working paper; not peer reviewed; no experiment reported",
  "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.22864866",
  "doi_status": "PUBLISHED",
  "zenodo_record_id": "22864866",
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  "url": "https://ivankotov.eu/publications/embodiment-without-imposed-identity-v0-1/",
  "rights": "© 2026 Ivan Kotov. All rights reserved.",
  "central_thesis": "A body made available is not an identity made obligatory. Under the explicit personhood premise, embodiment can participate in personality formation without becoming a creator-imposed identity.",
  "why_needed": "Embodied-AI design often collapses physical substrate, sensorimotor body, social appearance, self-model, self-identification and continuity. This paper separates them because a digital system need not begin development inside one fixed organism-like body, while a later embodiment may still become causally important through consequential experience.",
  "scope": "Does not establish current AI personhood, consciousness, subjective suffering, identity transfer or empirical harm from imposed embodiment; does not ban humanoid bodies or authorize runtime changes.",
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