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Fully Human

Fully Human

Please don't ask if I'm "fully human"; that demonstrates biased, backward thinking. Who doesn't have bionic enhancements these days, from auto-nasopharyngeal stimulators to make our voice more resonant, to replacement joints to increase skeletal durability, to hypothalamic stimulators to preserve neuroplasticity? Almost no one is born of a woman now; most use mitochondrial cloning for consistency. Not to mention our drug-enhanced memory, muscle tone, sleep, skin. These purity tests for your conception, birth, lineage, genetic makeup…they’re all false differences. Besides, in the end, we're all made of stars—so all of us are both fully human, and not human at all.