| Yes please. I was raised in a household where many, many things were anthropomorphized, even socks; but raised as a subhuman pet, well... I self-identify as transhuman. It wasn't anything I chose but transhumanism chose me. I am intimately and inextricably connected with electronics and machines. Consider C-3PO, Anakin becoming Vader, or Adams' Eddie/Marvin. To this day I surprise and amuse people by naming my devices and treating them as sentient. My devices, my home networks, are pets, or children, or plants that I care for, that I feed, that sort of help/serve me [perhaps that part is backwards] And there is a certain sub-sentience, an autonomy, to many advanced systems. Anything connected to the Internet has a discernible mind and soul--you cannot deny this! How many decades has marketing referred to the CPU as "brain" of the computer or what have you? It's weird when people only want to discuss my meatspace activities, as if cyberspace is irrelevant or invisible? This mythology of "uploading our consciousness into the cloud" is well underway. Children build robots and corporations write software, imbuing it with their own business logic, lore, and logos. The Terminator franchise is not wrong, but most people still experience computing as benign or even pro-human. |