Cyborgs are creatures that combine humans and machines. “Wearing hearing aids, cochlear implants or artificial crystals, for example, allows us to restore or even enhance our sensory abilities to survive in a wide variety of environments that vary .” Based on this definition, we can conclude that any self-circulating system that nests the human body with an inorganic body is a cyborg. Thus, humans who wear hearing aids and even pacemakers can be called cyborgs. With humanity’s increasing reliance on technology. Anyone could transform their autosomes and become a cyborg soon. This is the main reason why I chose to fuse with a Cyborg. , Cyborgs are achievable vis-à-vis other humanoid beings (bionics, clones, robots). It is the closest thing to a system we have in the real world.
GOOD HUNTING
I remember most about Cyborgs, <GOOD HUNTING>, which is the tenth episode of ‘Love, Death & Robots’. From magic to sci-fi, placing its central conflict in the balance of tradition and modernity, freedom and confinement. The important twist in the story is a cyberization process: technology can both obliterate traditional culture and revive it, act as an accomplice to oppressive forces, and help people regain the possibility of living in freedom.
Titane
This is a film I saw recently about Cyborg. The film had a kind of impact on me, and I didn’t understand a lot of the plot the first time I saw it. I only felt confusion: a very vague and confusing gender or an indistinguishable body and human-machine boundary. What I found most shocking was that the main character in the film was pregnant with the car’s child. At that time, the female protagonist was dressing as a man, and the kind of femininity (pregnancy) that there was no way to hide and the Cyborg in the womb before it was born struck me. The film is also a constant reminder of gender issues, gender equality and the awakening of feminist consciousness.
Like Donna Jeanne Haraway in The Cyborg Manifesto,
the Cyborgs exist to break down the “male-female” and “man-machine” divisions, and thus the traditional white capitalist patriarchal system of capitalism of the white capitalists of the capitalist world. The creation of a new political ecology, including gender.
It also makes us think about where the line between man and machine is drawn.we have absolute control over the machine by applying modern medical tools such as prostheses and cochlear implants to the human body. Still, without realizing it, we have been shaped into cyborgs – how much of our bodies have been dominated by machines?
I’m not opposed to cyborgs. Maybe people will live in the world through this form soon. The boundary between humans and machines will also become weaker and weaker, eventually approaching nothing. When I was researching, I also saw many ideas about cyborgs. Some people think that if human consciousness is uploaded to the machine, it will lead to the extinction of human consciousness, but I don’t think so. I think that the so-called disappearance would be a fusion of human consciousness and the machine, which would form a new species. We feel scared because there is no way for us to accept the extinction of ontology.
Thoughts.
Instead of thinking about the boundary between humans and machines, I could think about merging humans and machines.
Idea 1:
- There could be a piece of start-up music at the beginning
- Some message beeps in the middle
- A closing sound at the end
- A light screen at the end
Idea 2:
- All mechanical glitch sounds
- The screen is purple (?)
Idea 3:
- Immersive experience (noise canceling headphones)
- The screen doesn’t move close your eyes and enjoy (refer to https://ideasinual.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/01/12/flight/)