I don’t think it makes sense to draw IRL analogs, for two reasons:
- EVE is a game, and
- Capsuleers aren’t even really human. We’re clones, immortal infomorphs who can inject and extract skills from our minds, teleport our consciousness across interstellar distances, modify our brains with implants, and survive the physical destruction of our bodies. Neural remapping is just par for the course.
And when you’re dealing with an infomorph, those characteristics are malleable, both with hardware (implants) and software (boosters). So it doesn’t make any sense that they should be fixed and unchangeable.
EVE Online is set in a far-future, transhuman, post-singularity universe. Widen your perspective beyond humanity’s limits in the 21st century.