Am I a CYBORG and is that a good thing?

Of course I had heard of cyborgs, I pictured them as gunmetal grey robots that existed in Evangelion, or if I really thought about it, misunderstood organisms like that of Her, or Detroit: Become Human. To be honest, it never occured to me it is as simple as cybernetic organisms.

Pieces of machinery- with electrics or without- has been the trailblazer of our intelligence since the first word uttered. In quite a picky way, I dislike the notion that we are superior on this earth, since frankly I can’t get myself to see it that way. Still, it’s true that when we first felt the warmth of a fire we began our journey to cyborgs.

Like Clynes and Kilne, cybernetics and cybrogs could be viewed as a form of evolution. Just like how we didn’t start of walking on two legs, it could be argued that these more mechanical advances are one and the same as these legs that carry me.

For Neil Harbinson, these advances can actually become a tool to expand our senses past biology and adpat to environments we weren’t meant to ever exist within. His electronic eye has allowed new perceptions of the meaning of colour and how it relates to everything we know. It also poses the question of what differences our lives would face if we had an extra one or two colour cones.

A huge argument can be made for the natural’ness’ and intevitability of becoming cyborgs. So the question becomes (like always) how we can use these tools for good, and to minimise hurt on our earth, and the life among her, instead of a freakish strive for efficiency. It’s important to be aware of the nuance within the situation we find ourselves in; we need to keep in mind, ‘where the world stops and the person begins’.