So apparently we are all cyborgs

[lacktheknack]

<link=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cyborg>I don't think he knows what a cyborg really is.

No computer implants? No cyborg.

 

[Daveman]

As for me, I think it's all a little too wishy washy for my tastes. I think cyborgs are really part machine and that's what defines them, not the way in which people interact with technology or creativity. I'm not disagreeing with the overall argument (because frankly I'm not all that clear on what it is) I just wish he didn't hijack the term "cyborg". I think these people like stealing cool terms in order to make what they're saying sound more interesting than it actually is.

And to think, I got excited when we started Matrices in maths, imagining myself kicking ass in sunglasses and black.

One of the biggest disappointments of my life. I was in 8th grade - these were simple matrixes

"We're going to study the Matrix? In math?"
"Yes" (shows what a real matrix looks like)
"What the fuck is that?"

No sunglasses or asskickery, just a damn block of numbers.

You know my main thought when I watch the Matrix is?

Where the fuck does Morpheus get those sunglasses? It's funny what a major part of the film they are.

And also leather. Lots of leather.

edit: Also, my previous (and original) avatar was morpheus... I'm thinking I'm now gonna go for a pattern where all of my avatars are wearing sunglasses.

 

[TheRobotandtheBeast]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

Cybernetics has nothing to do with computers, thats just an application of cybernetics.
Semantics: Yes
An important distinction: yes

 

[Nickolai77]

Hmmm...in that case then cyborgs, more common than you think.

If your going to call animals that can use natural materials cyborgs then fair enough, but rather, i'd call such animals "animals which can use natural materials" and not call them cyborgs.

In my mind, a cyborg is an animal which has used materials to improve their own body.

 

[Ashz0r]

By the loose definition of what Philip K Dick was getting at, was that if we augment ourselves in any way, we are becoming cyborgs.

Using glasses to see better, clothes to keep warmer, the pill to prevent pregnancy... all these things change us or help us in a way nature did not design us for. Thus we're artificially changing ourselves in the same way as if we had a robotic arm.

Using a tool isn't quite the same thing, but its kind of complicated. I was taught all this in a my "Digital Culture" essay module at uni, so we are talking on the more academic side of the argument then the basic defination of "human-robot hybrid"

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