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Cyborgs-R-Us
Levy, N.
The prospect of a merger of human beings and technologies to create cyborgs arouses great fear as well as great excitement. I argue that neither the fear nor the excitement is justified. The threat from cyborgization to human nature is non-existent, because there is a clear sense in which we are already cyborgs. Our great cognitive abilities are a product as much of the world, as we alter it, as of our unadorned brains. By the very same token, however, the excitement surrounding cyborgization is overblown: it is not a radical departure from our preexisting mode of being, but an extension of it. Cyborgization presents us with many challenges and opportunities, but both the dangers and the benefits are of a familiar kind.
Cite as: Levy, N. (2004). Cyborgs-R-Us. In Proc. Selected Papers from the Computers and Philosophy Conference (CAP2003), Canberra, Australia. CRPIT, 37. Weckert, J. and Al-Saggaf, Y., Eds. ACS. 13-17.
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