A complex orchestra of chemical compounds bound together by the laws of chemistry and physics, some we haven’t elucidated currently.
Are memories a simplistic? biological form of RAM? You can clone hard drives to be exactly the same. We just haven’t figured out the processes that biological systems do this yet.
So transhumanism, we’re still human in our thoughts, need to be human…but we’ve moved past the hardware or improved on it. Cyberpunk/Ghost in the Shell touches on this nicely. Where does the human body stop and the machine start? Can a 100% cyborg still be human?
In my opinion you can’t be human anymore once you no longer fear your own mortality. And that’s different for different things, machines included
…And I agree. Our bodies just biomechanical machines that run on electrical impulses, water, hormones, and nutrients.
Our brains are a biological motherboards that also need nutrients, water, plus oxygen to control our bodies as vehicles.
We’re kind of already machines in a way. We attribute our personalities to our souls/spirit, but are we really anymore alive than a squirrel or a dust mite?
I would personally consider that Wendy and them, even Kirsh to an extent, are alive. I would call Kirsh artificially alive, because he wasn’t “born” with his programming. The hybrids kind of were born with their programming, even though it’s a copy.
In the long run I don’t think the show is really going to get that deep into it.
