Derek Turner - Philosophy of Transhumanism & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We cannot biologically create implants - so technically transitioning would not be speciation. More like mutilation. Bones could certainly be replaced with rods entirely, but that would end the ability to make red blood cells - especially if the thigh bone were replaced. To have emotions, one must have some kind of endocrine system - which takes natural processes to maintain unless you addict yourself to artificial hormones. "Uploading" one's consciousness is not a real thing. You can certainly create an AI duplicate with memories intact - but its sensory functions would go from experiencing the world to experiencing what it is like to be a computer. Boring. 

The actual transcendence at what is considered death is not stopped by creating an AI duplicate. Everyone still has to face the God Gamble - but if you relate to God as absolutely loving (which NDE survivors report) then you can junk all the philosophy of a just god. God needs no justification to love its creation nor does it have rights that creation must respect - again, justification implies legalism. God is beyond that. Any moral system that does not start there says more about its priesthood than its god. Any god that has needs is not God. Period.