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Within a generation or two, humanity will likely face a real choice: merge with machines or remain fully biological If we attain biological immortality, we won’t stop there. We'll either alter our genes dramatically or merge with machines Those who aren't willing to make that leap will be a branch in the evolutionary tree: homo erectus -> homo sapiens -> homo technologicus (or whatever label you want to give it) Homo sapiens will go on living alongside this newer species, which will probably propagate consciousness beyond our solar system We won't truly know what that does to our "souls" or the meaning of being human until the first of us make the leap Merging will ultimately expand us, of course, but we'll lose ephemerality, which is what gives life such depth and meaning If you want to explore more, I highly recommend: -> Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Nearer -> Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus Then, for a powerful take on the other end of the spectrum, read Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine, which rejects that future and encourages us to resist it https://zora.co/coin/base:0xde0f1bf987597aae74e4d3d898edaec8bd24986b

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