Belisarius Cawl

So I've been reading up on Belisarius Cawl's lore and apparently he detests external augmentations, preferring the human form, yet he has several external augmentations. I'm aware it was probably necessary to keep himself alive for as long as possible, but did he possibly abhor having to install these external augmentations(with the exception of the shit he installed in his brain), or did him "absorbing" the souls and memories of so many people alongside having to dump memories every 500 years, cause this viewpoint to fade from him?