The Body Is the New Cage: Escaping Biology Through Technology
Plato called the body a prison. Today Neuralink promises to free the mind from it. But is escaping biology the same as finding freedom?
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Plato called the body a prison. Today Neuralink promises to free the mind from it. But is escaping biology the same as finding freedom?

Human beings forget — and this is not a flaw in the design, it is the design. But artificial intelligence never forgets. Not because it is powerful, but because forgetting was simply never programmed into it. Every photo, every angry comment, every late-night search is stored somewhere in servers that never sleep and never feel sorry. Is forgetting still a blessing when every moment is recorded forever?