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http://io9.gizmodo.com/5923342/10-of-the...f-humanity

EXCERPT: When science fiction writers and futurists imagine humans of the far future, they never think our descendants are going to look exactly the same as we do now. After all, we'll have access to powerful tools to turn us into cyborgs and hack our DNA, so there's no limit to how we could reinvent ourselves. But just how weird could our progeny become? Here are 10 of the absolute strangest visions of our post-human future....

The possibilities open to uploading consciousness are indeed remarkable if not abit creepy. Imagine having your consciousness uploaded for a few days in a chip enhanced wolf body, running with the pack under the moonlit sky in near ecstatic oneness with nature. Or think of merging your mind with a beehive colony. Or, why not just opt for the sense-enhancing chip implanted in your own brain? The smells, the sounds, the sights, the flavors, the sex!, of a supersensory mammal. Could consciousness be uploaded into anything? A tree? A car? A building? Imagine being a supercomputer for a day. Or a sex robot. Or the Internet! A whole new definition of humanity would have to be found, transcending that of our simian bodies.