"We can cry, we can smile, we have blood, we can fuck..."
Recently I've watched again one of my favourite sci-fi movies, "Screamers". In the final scenes, two artificial women fought for flight to the Earth. The one was going to make some fuckup there, the other didn't want this to happen. The one minded herself as a cyborg representative, the other had pro-humanity thoughts.
Imagine two humans - the artificial one and the natural one, from natural blood, meat and other shit. In other parameters they are identical. So what the difference between them? No difference. Exterior difference. Interior is. The self-perception. If cyborg want to be a human, it would be it. If human want to be a cyborg, the same.
There are some disputes between people who calls themself unhumans, non-humans and so on, and those who say that there is no point to call in such a manner.
By the way, have you noted how humans depicts cyborgs in most of movies? Like creatures with hang-up on not having so called "human feelings", like love, tears, compassion, soul pain and other human goo-goo. I consider they would not have such a hang-ups if they'd exist.
What's the difference then? The only difference is in your head. Want to be a human - be it, don't want - just don't be it. Be the biocyborg. I believe that "biocyborg" is pretty suitable description of any human being. And not just human, animals too. They are biocyborgs, but has degraded CPU, sorry, bio-CPU, and has not an intelligence module.
Just throw out this human from your head, and be the somebody identical to human on hardware level, but not a human, but being that tends to self-advancement, fixing its bugs not keeping it, and thinking free.
no-pyccku:
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