Idle thought:
Cyberpunk narratives that paint body-modification as a negative thing because of "loss of humanity", are subtly transphobic because they associate essence with the physical body. That to modify the body is to negatively modify the mind.
It also presumes that to become less human is to also become less empathetic, whereas a person should be allowed to be non-human, or maybe even not a "person", without losing empathy and sapience.
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@Taylor nor does this consider the real life of people taking medicine to not space out forever or to not die due to the body not making what it should.
Or that post-furry is a thing, or that in a society with turing test passing AI would quite frankly throw out the term humanity in the first place to a term that can fill in for sapient and sentient beings capable of speaking with humans
@rrs Speaking of postfurry I hope our transhumanist future is furry-friendly and more interesting than just Human Robots everywhere. (And I don't trust SV to think beyond that.)
@Taylor @rrs SV is on its way out anyway. Hope the rest of us can make a better future and keep the big money people out.