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Your takes about the pros and cons of future transhumanism don’t matter, because it’s already here. Your friends are on the internet, some of you your careers and core interests, your soul is divided across this demiurgic monad and reality and it’s not budging anywhere by temporarily pushing it away with deflective takes and “dopamine breaks”. It’s here to stay.
What if the neoplatonic monad existed not in some unreachable spiritual plane, but on some server farm in the outskirts of Atlanta? That's the internet. That's what this is. Virtual spaces aren't really virtual. They're in tightly packed, secured places you'll never see, it's as material as it gets, it's a new demiurge for the new age.
I just don't know how else to put it. The transhumanism stuff is not starting with robot limbs and brain implants, it's starting with your social and emotional dependencies being tied up in corporate interests and the whirlwind of human desire, it's starting with your motivators to get out of bed existing on a server farm on the other side of the planet.