DRK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

K.VENUGOPAL

( 08U51A0427)
CYBORGS AND THE REALM OF CYBERNETICS

ABSTRACT
Cyborgs-cybernetic organisms, hybrids of humans and machines, have pervaded everyday life, the military, popular culture, and the academic world .Cyborgs are ongoing becoming of a doubly in-between temporality of humans and machines. Materially made from components of both sorts of beings, cyborgs gain increasing function through an interweaving in which each alters the other, from the level of neural plasticity to software updates to emotional breakthroughs of which both are a part. One sort of temporal in-between is of the progressive unfolding of a deepening becoming as not-one-not-two and the other is a doubling back of time into itself in which moments that were once disparate are conjoined or enjambed. There are two senses of the cyborg which have been discussed by those interested in the human/machine in-between. The first and more traditional sense of the case of organic beings who are physically and functionally united with mechanized beings to constitute what some consider true cyborgs. The second sense of cyborg claims that we have all become cyborgs in the sense of becoming enfolded within a world in which machines not only perform many of our key actions but also make possible how we know ourselves, express ourselves, modify our intentions, and open new avenues for who we might become. "Cyborg" is a science-fictional shorting of "cybernetic organism". The idea is that, in the near future, we may have more and more artificial body parts - arms, legs, hearts, eyes - and digital computing and communication supplements. The logical conclusion is that one might become a brain in a wholly artificial body. And the step after that is to replace your meat brain by a computer brain.
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