I think part of the appeal of technology as magic is the hope that with enough technology, the messiness of being human goes away.
Except, it doesn’t go away. We’re all still human.
There are ways in which the brain and the body map onto each other which are unavoidable. I’ve read multiple articles about people blind since birth still “talking with their hands” when describing something to another person. There is still the need to show with the movements of the hands the movements of concepts in the brain.
In one of the early episodes of The Huberman Lab podcast, Huberman talks about stress. He says stress in the brain activates nerves for movement in the legs and the muscles used for speech. He notes this is why it is so common for people to say unfortunate things when they feel stressed. What he doesn’t note, but what appears in innumerable jokes, cartoons, and memes, is the need to pace back and forth when in an intense discussion.
There are also differences in typing something on a screen and writing it by hand on paper. It feels different as the writer, and research shows it activates different parts of the brain.
Being human means having a human body and being susceptible to the ways in which the body and the brain interact with each other and with the outside environment. We’re all always human. No amount of magic technology will change that.