At present, Hayles’ arguments and questions in “Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to

Cognisphere” is not only relevant but also provides an intelligible view on understanding
and evaluating the impact of the surge in technology on our collective culture.

Hayles puts forth her argument by building upon Harraway’s work “A Manifesto for
Cyborgs’, that the status quo of human evolution is co-dependent on the technologies we
are enmeshed with. Albeit, these technologies as argued by Hayles, were once imagined
would evolve as a one-on-one relationship with individuals (Cyborg), has now instead
taken a form where such dialectical relationship wouldn’t make sense. Though she argues
that the relationship is still relevant, it has now transcended to become networked instead,
where even distant and non-tangible connections are quintessential and have an equal
bearing in understanding what we are and how we progress.

She furthers her argument taking the analogy of ​Cyborg being a junior sibling to mankind
and contests that the technoscientific network around us should be elevated from being a
junior to become a companion species. She argues, through her own work, that the
humans have evolved into ​post-humans and the though consciousness used to be the
primary indicator of human-​ism​, the index for post-human-​ism has morphed to cognition.
This argument brilliantly ties back to the previous argument as she points out that what
we are and how we construct our reality is dependent on cognition and, cognition in itself
is equally informed by both biological species and the complex network of technology
around us. This vividly attests that the network indeed has equitable stature as accepted
companion species even though it is non-biological.

The network’s co-species status is pertinent in understanding the reality we are in or what
it could be, her argument becomes important in us understanding that the human
evolution from henceforth can’t be solitary, though it wasn’t ever, but, intertwined with
progress in the technologies we construct, accept and adapt to. It no longer remains slow
and trivial as well. It should be regarded as complex and simultaneous, analogous to the
nature of ​Cognisphere​ of which we all part of.

Hayles, although through her own statement - “What we make and what (we think) we
are co-evolve together”, aptly resolves her own questioning and arguments but also
appears to problematize the issue of developing a novel perspective on the contemporary
nature of things and a call for fresh approaches in dealing with the same.