Homo Spiritus — Human 3.0

Machines are replacing your brawn. They are replacing your brain. Each layer stripped away sharpens the only question that has ever mattered: what is irreducibly, uniquely you?

This visual carousel runs the same physics that anchors Magnifica Vita through a personal, first-person lens. Ninety-eight percent of your atoms are replaced every year; your body makes 330 billion new cells a day; within ten years most of your body is entirely new matter running the same pattern. The chemistry changed—you didn’t. More fundamentally, the carousel argues, you are not matter at all. You are information that makes matter.

If you are a pattern rather than a substrate, the evolutionary arc reads differently: Homo sapiens, then Homo technologicus, then Homo spiritus—Human 3.0. The question of what makes us unique stops being about what we can do and becomes about what we most deeply are.

Best experienced full-screen. Move slowly through the slides.

@misc{anderson_2026_homo_spiritus_human_3_0,
  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Homo Spiritus — Human 3.0},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/essays/homo-spiritus-human-3-0},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-06-17}
}

Anderson, J. (2026). Homo Spiritus — Human 3.0. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/essays/homo-spiritus-human-3-0

Anderson, Jed. "Homo Spiritus — Human 3.0." Jed Anderson, June 5, 2026, https://jedanderson.org/essays/homo-spiritus-human-3-0.