You’ve seen instances of quadruple amputees, people losing their lower half and instestines, etc. After playing a bit of Deus Ex I started wondering exactly how much of a person needs to exist for them to survive (not talking quality of life, but just enough to communicate intelligently). How far could you do it with only natural parts and then how far could you go with artificial parts too?
I like science fiction so I find this interesting. I’m not qualified to answer, but while the skull is probably needed, probably not eyes and nose and jaw 🫥 right? And beyond that just neck to connect things and to swallow liquid food, and some parts of the torso. I guess the question then remains how much of the torso.
Then we start getting into philosophy on self and also how much machine assistance is allowed. If you can provide nutrition and oxygen to the brain, you could probably be a brain in a jar and still count.
That’s the way I see it. We’re brains, and everything else is support
It certainly looks nervous
While true, I assumed we’re talking current day technology!