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Cybrid-human offspring?
BlueFatima:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 18 Dec 2020, 05:08 ---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?
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Wasn’t that what Terminators were? Perhaps the movie series left a stigma against that. You’d think it could work out ethically as a universe that has AI with person rights and invisible emus would have advanced further in cloning body parts beyond where we are (excitedly awaits for cloned meat to become an accessible thing).
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Dec 2020, 09:21 ---
--- 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'.
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There are those that consider humans with glasses/contacts to be cyborgs.
I can't seem to find the speech with a cursory search, but theirs a transhumanist's quote about humans becoming cyborgs upon the first sharpened stick being picked up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure it was Aaron Diaz in a twitter post prior to her nervous breakdown while writing Dark Science? But I'm not 100%.
[BTW, she seems to be doing better mentally now and is trying to get the comic back on track now that she's figured out she is a she.]
zmeiat_joro:
I duckduckgoed the word "cybrid" and the two seemingly relevant results were https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic_hybrid and https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/Cybrid
I've read Hyperion, but decades ago and I don't remember much about Cybrids.
EDIT: were they the ones living on spaceships in interstellar space trying to avoid the AIs that were secretly controlling the teleportation network?
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 18 Dec 2020, 21:31 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Dec 2020, 09:21 ---
--- 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'.
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There are those that consider humans with glasses/contacts to be cyborgs.
I can't seem to find the speech with a cursory search, but theirs a transhumanist's quote about humans becoming cyborgs upon the first sharpened stick being picked up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure it was Aaron Diaz in a twitter post prior to her nervous breakdown while writing Dark Science? But I'm not 100%.
[BTW, she seems to be doing better mentally now and is trying to get the comic back on track now that she's figured out she is a she.]
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Huh. First I'd heard of it, but I'm not really surprised, given their choice of protag and general attitude toward human/biological bodies (messy kludge-y things, best discarded and replaced with something more intelligently designed)...
zmeiat_joro:
So... What is a Cybrid and from what franchise is it from?
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