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.
You can blame the incoherent travesty that is mechanistic metaphysics for the strange notion it is otherwise.