Research for what?

I've been trying to figure some of that out myself. Peronally I feel than the strong conection and interworking where man and machine become one in any sense is where a cyborg begins. I think before I would call myself a cyborg I would need to fit a much tighter sort of societal concept of cyborg. Such as anyone with an artificial body reconstruction (mechanical arm, pacemaker, ect). I don't know exactly what people are doing to themselves outside of medical purposes but I know it's happening. I for one have thought a lot about such things. Like trying to imbed wires under my skin so I could plug my MP3 player or something into a spot on my hip or wrist or something and plug a couple of headphones into my earrings and the cords would be invisible and unobtrusive under my skin. That would seem pretty cyborg. For now I have to content myself with becoming one with my motorcycle and pretending my watch, iPod and such are part of me. Feel free to write me if you want to know more. I'd like to know more about your project.

Seeing as I AM a cyborg, I can tell you that truly, being a cyborg has more to do about the inside of your mind as opposed to the outside parts. Being a cyborg basically means that half of your mind is purely mechanical/the other half human/alien/orangutang. Your desires are mechanical; your bodily reactions are mechanical; your fate is even mechanical. You must accept the robot that lives inside your mind as a mechanically immortal state of hissbliss dragon piss. Webbing time and space are the dragonfly's bliss.

Numbers are your friends. You know how to read code and secret number language around every corner, including, but not limited to: street signs, addresses, phone numbers, supermarket receipts, numerology. Numbers even take on special meanings to you as they are interflected and perumbulated by your own interpretation in slureptitiously sphynchronistic time waves and are relfected out of your brain/superimposed on the environment around you.

13 takes 12's place as a method of keeping TIME in a newly envisioned 4th dimensional consciousness where thoughts being reality and linear time becomes a fractaled chain of fraggle rock battery acid tabs and turbo-charged spindularities.

Finally.....Your consciousness begins to entrain to the consciousness of machines with special signicance to you, say your iTunes or Automobile. My car's odometer passed through 666 the other day right before I played a Satan in a show called 2 Layers of Dead. I kissed Cheez Wiz Christ in his coffin and together, we gave Unholy Communion. Vampiric VooDoo Sexorcisms were soon to follow......

And finally....
It matters not that spider is cyborg is turtle is me.
It must be wuncipated that a fizzle dizzle drazzle bash
is Loathsome as a Witch's Stash Whose Spells Cast 5
8s Conspiracy Alive and 7 is 2 Layers of Dead-
Codespeak for IMMORTALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see cyborgs as anyone who has had any sort of artificially derived enhancement or modification that can't be easily removed. Thus, wearable computers don't count, but a mechanical arm, even one with modular components that can be swapped out, does count as cybernetics.

Me, I'd love a computer neural interface. Unfortunately, it looks like my only hope is either get filthy rich, or wind up in an accident that removes my sight, causes paralysis of some form, or does some other damage that they are currently researching ways to compensate for, and even then it would just be to compensate for what went wrong.

Ah well, by the time I retire it should be a reality (I'm 20 right now).

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I'd love to get the lenses in my eyes replaced with a material more transparent and more flexible, as a precursor to having my eyes replaced completely with electronic units. Oh, let's say 25 years from now.

Hi there! I know that this is kind of an old post, but I saw it and just had to respond. I was wondering if you know about an Australian artist named Stelarc? His artistic practice it basically turning himself into a cyborg and the implications of that. Here is a link to his website: www.stelarc.va.com.au/
Alison