Why r cyborg theories useful?
by rebecca ~ June 13th, 2005. Filed under: New Media Musings, Reading Minds.This cyborg theorizing appeared when we reach for ways to make
our machines/technologies more like us: we begin to
investigate what a human being is, and discover that DNA
sequencing and electrical synapse (information looping)
are the Human machines we will need to understand to
replicate or mirror life. This then brings us to
question what thought is, and whether is merely
limited to the biological region of the brain. Cyborg
theorists such as Hayles and Clark (M&P, Ch. 5) see mind
as not trapped but as an energy that can leave its
physical locus for our loci and loop anywhere there is
information to be had, really.
In response, I think these theories gained importance
when they moved beyond mere physical (6 Million Dollar
man/Terminator) conceptions of cyborgs, and into the
idea of machine and mind as intertwined collective
minds; something I hadn’t really considered before. Much
food thought to munch on.