Trope-a-Day: Cybernetics Eat Your Soul

Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Averted, inasmuch as they don’t cause you to become emotionless, sociopathic, otherwise insane, or terminally angsty.

On the other hand, played at least somewhat straight where mind enhancement is concerned, since sufficient mental augmentations do tend to cause a few issues when you look around at the unaugmented members of your former species and see nothing but bad-tempered slow-running readily-simulatable near-automatonic mental nematodes whose inner life, in really extensive vastening cases, has about as much in common with yours as your colonic bacteria’s used to.