We're really sort of hard pressed to actually upgrade the human - restoring broken parts is great, but it's challenging to add affordances that don't crowd out the existing ones.
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probably the solution is similar to the prokaryote -eukaryote difference: the "post human" isn't likely to be inhuman at all, but human-plus-something else, and very likely they will be visibly indistinguishable (or mostly) - consider what happens in Dune
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For fun: Riemannschneider's Universal Robots Scale, the "L" scale, L may stand for "level", unclear. It goes from 0-7 (it's three bits.)
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L0: Tool/Part - converts some kind of work into another kind of work, like a wheel, or a hammer. L1: Robot Toy - designed to demonstrate a function, such as a mechanical arm, a mouse that walks, etc. True Mechanical Turks are L1's
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L2: Apparatus - an L1 that does real work, like a steam engine, a pump, a bicycle, a clock L3: Spare Hand - an L2 that does one function, and is not directly moved by a human (i.e. robot arms in factories)
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L4: Spare head - an L3 that has multiple functions, it need not do physical work (i.e. a 'smart' phone) L5: Companion - an L4 that adapts to its environment and can assume new functions
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L6: Spare Man - an L5 that is able to maintain itself L7: "Orphan" - Speculative category; an entity that is both completely a man and also a robot, RUR has never successfully produced an L7.
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I assume you're referring to Zayner's comments. Agreed. Tails would be superfluous. No need for a counterbalance. Also the sitting problem. Most of the significant "upgrades" that have been made are external ones (computers and data communication infrastructure, for example).
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yeah, although most of those seem to have similar issues, as Plato noted, books crowd out memory a bit, and computers possibly even more so. At least in this case the deficiency is amendable by habit, in the case of most body upgrades there's not much you could do.
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