[extropy-chat] newsvine: "Sure, make me a cyborg"

[Samantha Atkins]

They are not intechageable.  One is about whether the body has all
organic parts or not.  The other is about the goals, views and ideals of
the brain/mind realized in that body.  Conceivably a person could even
be tranferred fully into an artificial body or uploaded without being in
the least interested in or a proponent of transhumanism.

- samantha

Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> At 12:34 AM 1/29/2007, you wrote:
>> http://danish.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/28/542065-sure-make-me-a-cyborg 
>
> Nice, thanks.
>
> How do you see the distinction between cyborg and transhuman?  Do you
> think the terms are interchangeable?
>
> I wrote a paper on this but I'd like to read what others think.
>
>     Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More <http://www.natasha.cc/> 
>     Design Media Artist - Futurist 
>     PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium
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>     Proactionary Principle Core Group, Extropy
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>     circle, then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study
>     what is inside the circle and everything outside the circle, then
>     that is an open system perspective. - /Buckminster Fuller
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