The second thing about microslippage is why I, even though I would say I’m transhumanist, would only ever go full cyborg if the robot parts had a sense of touch.
I don’t wanna pet my dog and not only not feel their fur, but also end up crushing them with my super strength.
i feel like being objectively better than your body is a pretty fundamental requirement for transhumanism, like generally what’s shown as the ideal transhumanist body is a nanomachine swarm that can just make precisely whatever you want at any moment, you can be ostensibly human one moment and then turn into a fucking jet plane and go to the other side of the world and become human again to traipse through the jungles.
I’ve seen some pretty awesome prosthetics that are controlled the same way you would use your limbs before they were lost by connecting to nerves; but they still don’t feel anything. At least, not in the sense that the appendage itself is sending signals to your brain for it. There is still phantom sense/pain. You can get a false sense of touch in VR, too.
I think with the beginning stages of this kind of technology would work better with a removable option, for this reason. We are already getting able to make better human appendages, with super strength and dexterity, etc., but the touch is something that will probably be hard to implement for awhile.
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The second thing about microslippage is why I, even though I would say I’m transhumanist, would only ever go full cyborg if the robot parts had a sense of touch.
I don’t wanna pet my dog and not only not feel their fur, but also end up crushing them with my super strength.
i feel like being objectively better than your body is a pretty fundamental requirement for transhumanism, like generally what’s shown as the ideal transhumanist body is a nanomachine swarm that can just make precisely whatever you want at any moment, you can be ostensibly human one moment and then turn into a fucking jet plane and go to the other side of the world and become human again to traipse through the jungles.
Also masturbation might be a challenge in that scenario.
Also the ability of mirror neurons to watch someone do a thing, then conceptualize and execute it with your body is extremely interesting.
I’ve seen some pretty awesome prosthetics that are controlled the same way you would use your limbs before they were lost by connecting to nerves; but they still don’t feel anything. At least, not in the sense that the appendage itself is sending signals to your brain for it. There is still phantom sense/pain. You can get a false sense of touch in VR, too.
I think with the beginning stages of this kind of technology would work better with a removable option, for this reason. We are already getting able to make better human appendages, with super strength and dexterity, etc., but the touch is something that will probably be hard to implement for awhile.