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Just as I no longer view my flesh and bone form as separate from 'my' bike when riding, and am a new combined being with gyroscopically negotiated thoughts cascading through the endogenous euphoriants produced in my brain from pushing the pedals, so the motorized forms can be viewed as a combination of a machine and a formerly independent species now integrated as an endosymbiont in a steel shelled creature with combusted thoughts. At first, all the individuality of the human 'driver' was dominant. Now, as automation technology drives the rapid evolutionary stage that produces these beings, the individual driver concept becomes redundant. Mitochondrial assimilation of the human 'driver' has begun. Already tracked and guided by networks of satellites and sensors reading other motor beings and lane markings, the 'driver' does less driving as the car takes over braking and steering. Unnerved at first, the 'driver' quickly learns to adapt, relaxing into cruise control managed by 'smart motorways' with their variable speed limits massaging the traffic volume through pinch points on the network. Interactive lane departure warnings tug the wheel keeping the vehicle on track. Its hands not required on the wheel, its feet not required on the foot controls, its mind not required on the road, the formerly independent human organism floats in stupefying air conditioned soup of roasted thoughts, detached and sealed from its former physical and biological habitat, which this new combined organism steadily degrades. Once the mitochondrial assimilation is complete, there will be no need for a biome. If the fully automated motor beings still require their mitochondrial humans to have a biological form, hermetically sealed vehicles could easily move between hermetically sealed micro environments.
By Just as I no longer view my flesh and bone form as separate from 'my' bike when riding, and am a new combined being with gyroscopically negotiated thoughts cascading through the endogenous euphoriants produced in my brain from pushing the pedals, so the motorized forms can be viewed as a combination of a machine and a formerly independent species now integrated as an endosymbiont in a steel shelled creature with combusted thoughts. At first, all the individuality of the human 'driver' was dominant. Now, as automation technology drives the rapid evolutionary stage that produces these beings, the individual driver concept becomes redundant. Mitochondrial assimilation of the human 'driver' has begun. Already tracked and guided by networks of satellites and sensors reading other motor beings and lane markings, the 'driver' does less driving as the car takes over braking and steering. Unnerved at first, the 'driver' quickly learns to adapt, relaxing into cruise control managed by 'smart motorways' with their variable speed limits massaging the traffic volume through pinch points on the network. Interactive lane departure warnings tug the wheel keeping the vehicle on track. Its hands not required on the wheel, its feet not required on the foot controls, its mind not required on the road, the formerly independent human organism floats in stupefying air conditioned soup of roasted thoughts, detached and sealed from its former physical and biological habitat, which this new combined organism steadily degrades. Once the mitochondrial assimilation is complete, there will be no need for a biome. If the fully automated motor beings still require their mitochondrial humans to have a biological form, hermetically sealed vehicles could easily move between hermetically sealed micro environments.