in a 'perfect' future: we would cut off our own limbs to get the nimble-tron 5000 with magnetic finger extensions and predictive AI that totally doesn't strangle anyone even a little.
I joke... but I unironically can't wait for replacement limb tech to be that desirable. Imagine the upgrades people would get...
This is not an "upgrade". A replacement is a concession, a patch, a crutch, a mere instrument. It doesn't matter if the crutch can crack open Brazil nuts or turn your TV on or allow you to fetch the keys that fell behind the fridge. Metaphysically, it is always an inferior, if sophisticated, instrument. Ridding yourself of perfectly good limbs to replace them with an instrument is not only a "downgrade", but gravely and grotesquely immoral.
You can blame the incoherent travesty that is mechanistic metaphysics for the strange notion it is otherwise.
I joke... but I unironically can't wait for replacement limb tech to be that desirable. Imagine the upgrades people would get...