Assuming the tech was here
How far would you go?
If I could be in a fully ideal synthetic/robot body I would.
As for the whole brain-consciousness issue, and if I can go as fictional as I want, I’d let the equivalent of fluid nanobots very VERY slowly replace my brain cells with electronics. I’m talking 5-10 years. That way there’s no real debate on if my “true” self died during the transfer to an artificial brain.
My answer to that philosophical quandary is very 40k in nature. I believe everything has a metaphysical spirit. The soul may or may not exist, but this spirit transcends any religious belief and isn’t truly scientific in nature.
It’s something that everything that has ever existed or ever will exist has. It’s what makes each individual item, from each living creature to every rock, to every river unique. It isn’t the composite parts of the item that does this.
Take your phone for example. It indeed does have a machine spirit. That spirit is what makes it the phone you know versus anyone else’s phone. You can replace every part within it over the years but the phone remains. Your memories with it will remain and that bond you share creates maintains this spirit. No matter what it will always have this spirit and it cannot be destroyed.
Humans have this very same spirit. As long as my identity exists, as long as my ego remains. I remain me no matter how much of my flesh sack remains.
That’s far too open of a premise.
There is surely a point where humanity is minimized. Our glandular systems are too intertwined with our brains for us to imagine a simplistic singularity.
My partner has fully synthetic lenses in both eyes, and is thus a greater cyborg than I, merely wearing glasses. I’m still arguably the less human one.
That being said, I’d replace anything relating to the (rapidly deteriorating) purely physical parts of my body, as well as whatever’s in charge of my drug addiction. But this is all just wish fulfillment territory.
I find the question hard to answer myself. I believe I’d be willing to replace anything as long as I still appeared human. It gets complicated when thinking about the brain being replaced. When do I stop being me?
For stuff thats here, I would really like a NFC implant from DangerousThings, but the installation process scares me.
I would replace any and every part of my body given that it was a meaningful upgrade. wouldn’t change out my eyes for current tech, but if I could zoom in hell yeah I’d do it in a heartbeat
Imagine not only being able to zoom in, but also to see better at night. Be able to see stars and various nebulae without the use of a telescope. Also being able to see at different light wavelenghts. It would be amazing.
Add heat vision and other features while we’re at it as well.
