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in a 'perfect' future: we would cut off our own limbs to get the nimble-tron 5000 with magnetic finger extensions and predictive AI that totally doesn't strangle anyone even a little.

I joke... but I unironically can't wait for replacement limb tech to be that desirable. Imagine the upgrades people would get...

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The vision and ideas from the game Deus Ex are waiting to happen.

The technological singularity actually occurs when the prosthetic hand gives a hand jibber unrecognizable from a real one.

This is not an "upgrade". A replacement is a concession, a patch, a crutch, a mere instrument. It doesn't matter if the crutch can crack open Brazil nuts or turn your TV on or allow you to fetch the keys that fell behind the fridge. Metaphysically, it is always an inferior, if sophisticated, instrument. Ridding yourself of perfectly good limbs to replace them with an instrument is not only a "downgrade", but gravely and grotesquely immoral.

You can blame the incoherent travesty that is mechanistic metaphysics for the strange notion it is otherwise.

whoa...

hold on there...

I replace my 2080ti with a 4080ti... is that's not an upgrade: that's instead categorically always a 'patch' to you?

metaphysically - a replacement says nothing to the quality of replacement.

Silly to think any change on anything is always for the worse...

A replacement can also be an upgrade. those are not mutually exclusive labels.

Why don't you see the arms you were born with as an "instrument"?

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