this often escapes notice, that glasses are a cyborg enhancement of the body; using technology to transcend the limitations of our genetic heritage, to become more than we are. what could be more transhumanist?
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RT @mattparlmer
I've been a staunch supporter of cyborg posthumanism since the first time I put glasses on
https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1426586257472249862
typically transhumanism is associated with shiny tech like bionic eyes, animatronic prosthetics, neural mesh, etc. this is a consequence of a dearth of imagination; transcending biology is not about metal and silicon, but rather an attitude towards our power dynamics with nature.
there are many such attitudes one could adopt; do you go full bioessentialist, as many on the political extremes have, worshipkng the natural form as divine? do you reject the accoutrements of technological civilization & eschew glasses/hearing aids?
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RT @pee_zombie
there is a type of bioessentialist luddite which resists any sort of cyborgization, ie integration of tools into the extended self; they push for a sort of RETVRN of th…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1396662991832109057
do you take the sensible centrist path, accepting minor revisions to our bequeathed anatomy, but looking askance at the more ambitious interventions, such as those surgically altered to become catgirls and/or trans, every year needing to decide anew which interventions are fine?
or do you fully buy into radical transhumanist longtermism, committing to certain philosophical principles & their inevitable consequences, for the sake of empowering ourselves to escape mortality & our ancestral home, and colonize the universe?
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RT @pee_zombie
a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation patt…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393637959870656516
there are myriad positions in between and orthogonal to these, ofc, but most I see in practice tend to cluster around one of these three.
personally I'm a mix of the latter two; more radical than most, but more conservative than many, varying by topic
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RT @pee_zombie
to be a proper transhumanist you need to be HIGHLY conservative in certain domains; preserving a healthy mind until uploading is possible should be our foremost goal, …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1381424502752612353
you may find the claim that donning glasses makes one a cyborg a bit absurd, but let me assure you it squares with the traditional definition. if this bothers you, perhaps use it as an impetus to reevaluate your notions of what a human is & ought to be; you may find it worthwhile