[nickcarraway]

Ping

[no-to-illegals]

The patient flicks the spaceship back and forth by imagining that he is moving his tongue. This creates a pulse in his brain that travels through the wires into a computer. Thus, a thought becomes a software command.

From the information provided (above), would have to believe computers are winning the battles against our brains.

[the invisib1e hand]

Schalk studies people at the Albany Medical Center who have become, not by choice, some of the world’s first cyborgs...

A public health facility is doing research on cyborgs, "not by choice?"

I know Albany is where Satan spends his summers, but even this seems over the top.

[JRandomFreeper]

K. I'll take a direct neuro interface, and even beta-test it if I can have all the schematics, source code, and mechanical data on it.

I lost 20 wpm typing speed when I got hurt 2 years ago, not to mention not being able to play a grand piano anymore. 55 wpm sucks when you are used to doing better.

Heck, getting old sucks. I'm all for ways of bypassing the failing biology and getting effective control of better ways to relate with our ever growing cybernetic relatives.

/johnny

[jysting]

There is an critical difference between human-technology melding techniques employed to restore health or correct dysfunction and the transhumanist urge to exceed normal capabilities or even give new functions to “healthy people who want to merge with their machines” [The Cyborg in Us All]. The latter risks the creation of cyborgs unrestrained by the limits of biophysiology, going beyond what is humanly possible and altering the essence of what it means to live as a human being (with its moral essence, the toll of aging and inevitable decline). The prohibitive cost of posthuman enhancements limits its use to a minority who are already privileged in their access to opportunity. Enhancements widen the gulf that already exists between the have and have-nots, worsening inequity and thereby threatening social cohesion. In elite sports, body-mind enhancement detract from the ideal of a level playing field at a stage when athletes are rapidly approaching the limits of physiological performance.