cyborgs

Alright so I wanted to talk about this idea of cyborgs a little bit. They confuse me and the lecture we had today confused me a little too. It's just a matter of the whole what separates us from them that I find to be a thin line. Like that movie that I had mentioned. If it's a cyborg of themselves, and you die if it dies then what's the difference? What is the point at all of having something else live your life for you? That's what I don't understand. However I don't think to say that if you have a false heart or a prostetic limb that that makes you a cyborg. I saw an episode of PopularScience something or other (I forget what exactly it was, I saw it a while ago) where it was talking about how we already have androids made and they're made to be connected to another person...so say that my boyfriend and I are separated for a bit, one of us is studying abroad, so this android thing is connected to the other person I believe emotionally and then I would have one and it's programmed to do things like hug and such. It was really neat but kind of odd at the same time. But that begs the question then as to what separates the person it's connected to into two completely separate beings if it's going as far as connecting to an actual person. I don't know, I kind of like the idea, it just doesn't sit quite well in my brain.