The Philosophy of the Future – Cyborgs

Cyborg is a term coined to describe organisms who are part-human and part-machines. The last few years have seen the concept of Cyborgs come out of science fiction and into reality as a new generation of artificial arms, ears and even eyes are developed in research labs. These revolutionary devices integrate directly with the nerve system and the brain and allow blind people to see, amputees to enjoy the freedom of movement and deaf children to hear.

Moreover, researchers have managed to create remote controlled insects, cyborg monkeys, robots that are controlled by a mixture of computer chips and rat neurons and they have even managed to record and transfer memories between mice. This is just the beginning as we are witnessing the dawn of the cyborg era.

In this presentation I discuss some of the philosophical aspects of this new era and declare that the age-old Dualism is essentially dead.

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Thanks and credit

This was my second lecture for this great group. I would like to thank first and foremost Jes Gisbert who is the orginaser and founder of ‘The Philosophers Corner‘ as well as Lee, Carolyn and Ric who provided amazing assistance. I’d also like to thank Stephen and Ariel Bookshop who provided a fantastic location. Last but not least I’d like to thank all those who came to hear the lecture. It was an honour to meet such a group of intellectuals!

~ by amnoncarmel on September 27, 2010.