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Ø Applications · Chapter Eight · the plain edition

Transhumanism and the Augmented Window

Augmentation is permitted where your own modelling can take in what it delivers, and refused where it cannot.

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This is the plain edition, written for the screen. The book of record is Ø Applications, Chapter 8, unchanged, on the420code.org.

The sections

  1. Section 1A heart from one bodyEach is an augmentation. Each raises the same question.
  2. Section 2You are already augmentedThe body you are reading from has already been augmented.
  3. Section 3What this chapter stands onWhat is read is the build, not the material.
  4. Section 4Where the question came fromWhat change carries a person on, and what breaks them apart?
  5. Section 5Organ donationThe cleanest case first.
  6. Section 6Passive prostheticsThe corridor widens. Control keeps pace. Maintenance.
  7. Section 7Impedance matchingControl must keep pace with what arrives. That is the whole condition.
  8. Section 8The harder casesCognitive augmentation divides by rate.
  9. Section 9Four positionsFour common readings of augmentation. The test is a fifth.
  10. Section 10The I is the building, not the windowThe window can be rebuilt. The building stands.
  11. Section 11Where the reach endsFive questions this chapter names and hands on.
  12. Section 12Where it would dieFive claims carry this chapter. Each one can fail.
  13. Section 13ClosingThe window is rebuilt while the building stands.

The kill switches

APP-8.1Show that impedance matching is not specifiable.

APP-8.2Exhibit augmentation that outruns control yet preserves coherent self-reading.

APP-8.3Demonstrate biomatter transfer as parasitic in some structural form.

APP-8.4Produce a transhumanist proposal the chapter cannot dispatch.

APP-8.5Show that “shatters self-reading” lacks structural ground.

Source. Ø Applications, Chapter 8 — Transhumanism and the Augmented Window. The book in full: the420code.org/Applications.pdf. The short edition: the420code.org/models/applications/08-transhumanism-and-the-augmented-window/. The film, Bandwidth does not upgrade you: the420code.org/films/applications/. Its kill switches: APP-8.1 to APP-8.5.