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How far would you augment yourself?
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I'd want the full package, but I'd need to be conscious for the brain part. Not 100% how to do that, but any break in consciousness for any type of brain "transfer" is going to drive the existential crisis of if the new robot brain is me or if the corpse that used to hold everything that was me is me. I feel like if I'm able to maintain consciousness through maybe some sort of nanomachine changing small parts of your brain at a time I can reasonably convince myself I'm me once the process is said and done.