If We Gradually Replace Our Bodies and Brains, When Does Humanity Go Extinct?
VraserX · x · 2026-11-02
A thought-provoking tweet: if humans gradually replace their biological bodies and brains with technology over centuries, at what point does humanity actually go extinct?
The author suggests we might become something completely different without a single person dying — and asks whether that should still be called extinction. A classic open-ended reflection on transhumanism and the technological singularity.
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