Each of the words the fingers inscribed on the wall is a measure of weight. They symbolize that God had weighed Belshazzar's kingdom and found it wanting.

Those espousing transhumanism aspire to correct the 'glitches' of human imperfection through gene splicing, replacing 'inferior' organs with synthetic ones.

Daniel chapters 2-7 form a chiastic (X shaped) structure. Chapters 2 and 7, 3 and 6, and 4 and 5 are paired and mirrored, reinforcing significant themes.