On the subject of ditching the human 1.0 blueprints, cheap prosthetics could bring the opportunity to add limbs or mechadendrites tech priest style. I often just need one more hand to hold something in place while I’m working, not even a proper dexterous hand, just something simple with some clamping force for when my hands are already in use. Could attach it with a harness or something. Cheap prosthetics plus some ability to control them via brain (I know most current designs work by looking for muscle movements intended for the now-missing limb, so I don’t know how we’d send signals to an additional one yet) would be awesome.
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STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No reason to just copy our old anatomy if you can come up with something better. For example, humans don’t have nearly enough thumbs. Not only do we obviously need thumbs on our feet but we should also get a 2nd thumb on the opposite side of our hands.
But that’s because they would we extremely useful? What exactly is the advantage of a tentacle? The only way to grab something would be to constrict around it
JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
hemko@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fetishes.