Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyborg
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Nice piece here on a guy with a cochlear implant, Michael Chorost, and the positives of being cyborg. See: eastbayexpress.com | Culture | Hi, I’m Bionic | 2005-06-29 “When you become a cyborg, you’re no less human than you were before,” he says. “You’re differently human.” He’s written a book, Rebuilt : How Becoming Part…
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Article about Matt Nagle (25) who is a patient in a trial that seeks to prove brain-computer interfaces can return function to people paralyzed by injury or disease. Basically the device in the brain identifies the brain activity associated with moving limbs and responds electronically effecting a response in the world. See Wired 13.03: Mind…
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Neural Interfaces Cyberkinetics, a Massachusetts company, has launched the first human trials of their new BrainGate neural interface. This won’t be for console cowboys trying to make their big cyberspace break, but for the physically disabled needing communication and activity. Therapy, Enhancement and the Augmented Society This is also another step forward in the ongoing…
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My fieldtrips for my research often tend to be to the movies. Movies such as the Matrix trilogy, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Star Trek: Nemesis and today I, Robot serve as a source for thinking about human nature in relation to technology. In her book on technoculture Lelia Green comments on the increasing number of contemporary…
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Spent an hour and a half this afternoon watching the documentary Synthetic Pleasures (1996) by Iara Lee as part of my research and also to get some discussion questions for Monday’s lecture on being or becoming human in Western technoculture. Couldn’t get hold of a copy in NZ so ordered it in from overseas post-haste.…
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Just finished reading Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould as part of an ongoing project evaluating models of science and religion interaction. It was one of those books where after the preface and the next 8 pages you knew pretty much all you needed to…