Cyborg

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		+	''If men and machines coexist in a natural continuum in which there are no gaps, quantum jumps, or insurmountable barriers preventing the assimilation of the one to the others they they also coexist in a moral continuum in which only relative but never absolute distinctions can be made between human and machine morality.'' (Versenyi 248)
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		+	The problem then begs where agency should fall. Should the creator of the cyborg have more power and ability because of that creation, they have the ability to destroy. But – with agency those creations attempt to sustain their own lives. There are innumerable dystopian science fiction texts that examine such a relationship – The Matrix, Meet The Robinsons, etc. - but very few that attempt to even examine a world where machines and humans co-exist in peace. Thus the nature of the machine is judged differently as if they are not ever to be seen as creatures with agency. The nature of the cyborg is as changing as that of humanity, though the AI (artificial intelligence) is often advanced in ways that humanity cannot be (super strength, etc.), though limited in others that perhaps some humans do excel at. Much like the viewpoint of colonizers; cyborgs exists heavily in the conceptual “Other” space. The Self is moving, slowly with the advent of globalization, to the concept of all humanity, and thus the binary opposite must find a new place to inhabit.

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((This is the basic definition. Feel free to change things))

If men and machines coexist in a natural continuum in which there are no gaps, quantum jumps, or insurmountable barriers preventing the assimilation of the one to the others they they also coexist in a moral continuum in which only relative but never absolute distinctions can be made between human and machine morality. (Versenyi 248)

The problem then begs where agency should fall. Should the creator of the cyborg have more power and ability because of that creation, they have the ability to destroy. But – with agency those creations attempt to sustain their own lives. There are innumerable dystopian science fiction texts that examine such a relationship – The Matrix, Meet The Robinsons, etc. - but very few that attempt to even examine a world where machines and humans co-exist in peace. Thus the nature of the machine is judged differently as if they are not ever to be seen as creatures with agency. The nature of the cyborg is as changing as that of humanity, though the AI (artificial intelligence) is often advanced in ways that humanity cannot be (super strength, etc.), though limited in others that perhaps some humans do excel at. Much like the viewpoint of colonizers; cyborgs exists heavily in the conceptual “Other” space. The Self is moving, slowly with the advent of globalization, to the concept of all humanity, and thus the binary opposite must find a new place to inhabit.