homo sapiens is the cyborg monke
what truly differentiates us is not our bipedal posture, our hairlessness, nor our self-awareness
but rather our capacity for complex language, which comprises a memetic host, & hence allows for the integration of the natural and the artificial
we are cybernetic organisms, even more so than most, directly embedding auxiliary cognitive machinery in the fabric of our minds; we truly are a tool-using species
much power is unlocked thru this cognitive extension slot, hotswapping tools for thought
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RT @pee_zombie
similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie you…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398727989282627584
unlike the minds of other monkes, we are not merely a raft floating on an endless emotional ocean, but akin to a massive oil platform, a cognitive superstructure we can reconfigure at will, downloading blueprints for new extensions w/ language
thru memetics we transcend 🐵🤝🤖
typical monkes are intuitive emotional beings, w/ outputs smoothly & continuously generated from inputs, biologically
in us, however, much processing flows thru an artificial apparatus in our minds; the linguistic structures we use to reason. what is this if not technological?