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Published in: NanoEthics 3/2014

01-12-2014 | Critical Discussion Notes

Cyborg Bodies—Self-Reflections on Sensory Augmentations

Author: Stefan Greiner

Published in: NanoEthics | Issue 3/2014

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Abstract

Sensory augmentation challenges current societal norms and views of what is conceived as a “normal” human being. Beginning with self reflections of a bodyhacker, the author proposes an extended view onto the human or respectively cyborg body. Based on cognitive theories, it is argumented that we are already mental cyborgs. Our brains plastically restructure themselves in order to meet new requirements of the technological extended human.
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Metadata
Title
Cyborg Bodies—Self-Reflections on Sensory Augmentations
Author
Stefan Greiner
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
NanoEthics / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1871-4757
Electronic ISSN: 1871-4765
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-014-0207-9

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