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How genetic enhancement can create disconnection from your own body

I got genetic modifications to enhance my immune system and they work but now I feel disconnected from my body like I am living in a machine that happens to look like me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Improving the body through technology can paradoxically alienate us from embodied experience.

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“Where Are You with Biotech and human enhancement?”

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