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At 05:25 PM 7/20/2007, Jef wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 7/20/07,
nvitamore@austin.rr.com <nvitamore@austin.rr.com> wrote:<br>
> Can anyone answer the million dollar question:<br>
><br>
> What is the difference between a cyborg and a transhum?<br><br>
A transhum is a what you get when a cyborg doesn't know the
words?</blockquote><br>
haha. This is good!<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">But seriously, folks...<br><br>
A cyborg, or cybernetic organism, is an organism composed of<br>
integrated artificial and natural systems. So present-day,
low-level<br>
cyborgs include humans with cochlear implants, hearing aids, cardiac<br>
or neural pacemakers, eyeglasses, etc.<br><br>
"Transhuman", on the other hand, is more a reference to a
future point<br>
on a trajectory beyond present concepts of humanity than anything
that<br>
can be precisely specified.</blockquote><br>
I wonder if it not more fundamentally related to "human nature"
(the elephant in the room). I was just listening to Kevin Kelly's
talk at TED and how he approaches the idea from a theory of technology
and "hacking" as an essential nature all life forms.<br><br>
But I agree that the transhuman is a "becoming" and each cyborg
stage is a fata compli. <br><br>
- just musing. <br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate,
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</a><a href="http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/">Collegium</a>
<dd><i>Situated in the Faculty of Technology, School of Computing,
Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, England</i>
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a><br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the 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. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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