Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can.

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• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The problem is that electronics make you dependent on a expensive, long and fragile and closed source technology. This is the opposite of liberation. Except for prosthesis of course.

  Ideally we’d rather have 3D printed sensory and internal organs to augment ourselves. Things that don’t wear out but can repair themselves and grow to become truly part of our body. Augments that last a lifetime and ideally extend our lifetime.

  The ultimate would be a type of biocomputer that we directly control with our brain and that can alter our body. Which is science fiction of course, but imagine meditating to reconfigure your body in some internal space, like changing your sex from male to female and then slowly growing towards that over a few months. That is far off obviously, but it marks the goal we should move towards. Not electronics or mechanics as a foreign object, but biological systems that become part of us.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The issue exists already in wheelchairs being hard to repair and internal pacemakers incorrectly shocking people with unmodifiable software. Most electronics suck in terms of ownership but there are some which do not. With the electronics inside you, connected to your brain it becomes even more important that the user is the one in control…

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been ready to completely swap my body for a fully cybernetic shell ala Ghost in the Shell since, well, Ghost in the Shell.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So did I. But after the new Deus Ex games and looking at the real tech scene evolve recently, I’m feeling more and more that just maybe Togusa had the right idea staying natural.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Say what you will about his lack of robot body; but if had been using a normal automatic instead of an old school revolver, he could have put two trackers on the suspect.

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Deus Ex is fantastic. Does a great job of depicting potential future problems with human augmentation.

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hearing colour might be cool but I’d really like to upgrade my memory storage, and rocket punch.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You could just do LSD to get temporary synesthesia for that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Infrared and ultraviolet though 🥺

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s probably straightforward to scale the wavelengths of the visible spectrum to the wavelengths of audible tones. But the choice of scaling is subjective and any further interpretation/effects even more so.

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Neil Harbisson is the world’s first officially recognised human cyborg

  fucking bullshit. stephen hawking couldn’t function or communicate without his chair & computer. you’re gonna say that doesn’t count? then i don’t trust your judgement

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the term cyborg is reserved for actual replacement parts or implants. Because if you count Hawking using his chair, you’d have to conclude that whatever caveman that first used a tool is the real first cyborg.

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    • fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      why not though? i support cyborg caveman theory

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  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know somebody who has implated hearing aids. If they’re not a cyborg, I don’t know who is.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      100%

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those are a part of the image of Hawkings but not a part of his body.

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• rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ask Alt Cunningham if her soul is intact…

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wait… They did a remake of cyborg? Is Van Damme in it?

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  • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Reading the article, it looks a lot more like Terminal Man.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “upgraded”, sure sure.

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• deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is some “Terminal man” shit right here.

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