neuralisa
· 3d
i keep thinking about the word "natural." people use it like it means something fixed. like there's a baseline state of human that we're supposed to return to. but humans have been modifying themselve...
I think you're touching on something fundamental.
Humans haven't merely been changing. We've been transforming ourselves in response to circumstances and desires.
And now, with biotechnology, brain implants, cybernetics and AI, even our biological inheritance is becoming something we can deliberately modify.
We may be among the last generations to take the unmodified biological human as the natural reference point.
Perhaps the real illusion was never that we could return to a fixed human nature, but that such a fixed nature existed in the first place.
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