Assuming medical/regular technology was advanced enough and medical science advanced far enough that the brain could remain active through the procedure, would you want to become a full cyborg aka brain in cyborg body? For the sake of the argument, let’s assume the cyborg body isn’t one with touch sensitivity.
For me, I would love to become a cyborg. Screw being human!
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I’ve thought about it a lot, living beyond my years, and what I would and wouldn’t do. Mind uploading is the closest I can get to this, because it is an intentional copy, if it’s a lousy copy then it can be flushed
but upgrading self, ship of theseus style, I’m not sure. I’d need to start with a lot lower level stuff and it work out. Like if there was a point that they developed a superior knee joint, it had a proven success rate and could easily be removed in case of malfunction, that’s how I would prefer to start the process. A faulty bone, a faulty muscle, that works for long enough I’m more likely to take the upgrade when it’s the kidney, liver, lungs or heart.
I’ll never be an early adopter for good reason; I’m a cautious pragmatic person, some might say a coward. I’m not a luddite though, if an improvement exists and it looks reasonably likely to work, sure, why not?
Loss of sensation of touch is an interesting thing to pick, I think it might drive a person insane without tweaking some pretty substantial parts of the brain. So would I pull the trigger and go for it? I’d have to really want to go on, I can’t imagine being that attached.
It’s possible though. Lots of things that I said I’d never do are things I did in fact end up doing. I wouldn’t run out of things to do, that’s not the worry, it’s the brain facing things it never has before. It’s like the early expeditions to the artic; eventually they figured it out, but not until hundreds of people died determining the ways you cannot successfully survive that environment. I’m not that committed to the idea.
I wasn’t thinking of living beyond one’s life. Using technology to live beyond the typical human lifespan is the obvious way of the future for this species assuming humanity lives long enough to reach that point.
What I wanted to see is if other people toyed with the idea of being a full cyborg as a thought experiment. Are other people so fed up with being human that they would choose to become something else despite knowing they couldn’t feel physical sensations anymore?
The main reason I bring up loss of physical sensations is to avoid getting into the philosophy of what is human at that point. Assuming technology advanced far enough that it could build a robot body that could feel touch and even eat, beyond the physical differences, what would the difference between a regular human and a cyborg be?