We are first and foremost replicators. Looking good in a co-replicator's gaze is simply about achieving the goal of replicating. It does not make a replicator l

We are first and foremost replicators. Looking good in a co-replicator's gaze is simply about achieving the goal of replicating. It does not make a replicator less of a replicator, rather the opposite. To say that it is dehumanizing is to claim that being human is fundamentally about something other than being a replicator. To the extent that is true it a bearish signal for the future of human replicators.