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Wingy:
Why couldn't a cyborg be a machine internally with a living skin on the outside?  It would require two kinds of ingestion and probably some esoteric engineering to support the blood stream the skin needs, but the only new technology required would be the ability to code the skin so it grows the right colors, shapes, and textures.  Things like nipples, ears, etc. as it grows over the framework.  Such a skin would make URs life more difficult as they'd have to take blood-borne pathogen precautions to work on such a creatures mechanical bits, but they need to put up a private work area anyway.  Can you imagine May in such a chassis?

BenRG:
A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).

What you're describing is a kind of android. True androids are usually synthetically-grown pseudo-biological entities or a mechanical appliance that closely resembles or mimics the function of a human.

Gnabberwocky:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Dec 2020, 05:32 ---A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).

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Does Clinton count?

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 18 Dec 2020, 09:11 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Dec 2020, 05:32 ---A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).
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Does Clinton count?
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Here you raise an interesting point: What is the difference between a cyborg implant and a prosthesis? I don't know if there is a widely-accepted definition but, in my view, a true cybernetic appliance is one that is directly wired into the user's nervous system enabling it to be controlled by and sensory data fed directly back into their brain. Clinton's robo-hand does seem to meet those criteria. So, unless you want to add another criterion such as 'percentage of body volume replaced', the answer seems to be 'yes'.

Zebediah:
Clinton certainly self-identifies as a cyborg.

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