Are LED Lights And Other Techno-Implants Slowly Turning Us Into The Borg?

[Danja]

Transhumanists believe that we can upgrade ourselves through LED lights, computer chips and other implants that can give different human capacities an assist. We’re already seeing this in the plans for Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Now an interview with BBC Scotland’s The Nine has given us some insight into the people who voluntarily got LED lights under their skin for some cosmic sparkle or have chip implants in their hands that can open a car door—and already make keys seem archaic.

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[Santaman]

We've got troubles enough with prosthetics, rejection of foreign matter inside the body, having LEDs/chip implants isn't transhumanism, its gadgettism, when you can seamlessly fit a prosthetic leg or arm to a human without all kinds of external straps or replace an eye/organs with something that exactly replicates the abilities of the original then call again, we've got some steps right, replacement hips, knees etc, they've replaced the entire top skull of a woman in the Netherlands a few years ago but a real seamless integration of machine and living tissue is a looooong way from being realized, for now resistance isn't futile.

Also that chip implant stuff, yeah, nice that you can be followed through that, privacy issues anyone?

 

[XCV330]

I have an implant in my heart and I can check on how it's doing, battery levels, etc through my cell phone via an interface.
It helps keep me alive. I'm hoping in the next decade for one of the newer artificial hearts and I would like to keep upgrading for awhile, if possible. Adorning yourself with LED lights is not nearly as transhuman.

We've been improving ourselves since using sticks for crutches

 

[Santaman]

Well, that is a great example, if we were at transhumanist level you'd either get a artificial heart which mimics a real one as close as possible or they'd be able to literally grow one from your cells and implant it back into you.

 

[arch101]

I have an artificial heart valve and artificial aortic arch. I’m 51 and planning to live to at least 100 and figure I’ll be riddled with artificial parts and devices by then.

 

[XCV330]

I have an artificial heart valve and artificial aortic arch. I’m 51 and planning to live to at least 100 and figure I’ll be riddled with artificial parts and devices by then.

Likewise.