Yes. Naturalism. This is not a nihilism. Simply put, let nature take it’s it’s irresistible course, the recalibration of its powers, let it be.
What happens then? When no amount of mechanistic interference can correct but cosmetically make it as appear corrected? Politics of selfhood will automatically clash first, resulting in wars, again corrective and made up wars, to try to contain the major faults, which could destroy the whole lubricious edifice.
Let it be and these minor skirmishes , these plastic ancient stab in the back desert acts, will be enough to mystify and confound. Actually, it is the desert where the source of power lies, and it is in the desert where these powers where the plastic acts play out. But as plastic goes, it is as virtual as it gets, try connecting ancient texts with shadowy, shallow one dimensional representations of them?
Your circular reasoning makes sense thus, but it is an ellipse no? The viscousness of the circle sucks in more information but gathers it in it’s hungry mouth of a singularity, and seems to swallow it whole. But is this what happens? No. It is chewed up and spit out, and again reassembled in some other far out galaxy, perhaps , as You and me, again rearguing this unaware, that this has been going on since for ever.
I think some of the worry is predicated in the negativity of dismissing similitude, as a model, and the fear of castration has a lot to do with it.
Nature will take care of it, and to see things in a completely different light as say before the en-lightenment, is an error of perception and not of reception. We live in constant angst, because of this structural misapprehension of the difference. Nature will be due for a gross correction, whatever new machines are put in place.
Remember, the human machine, is as of yet unparalleled, and, when the machine gets into critical proximity, all hell will be set loose, and the machine flung there.