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The era of homo cyborg: Philosophical aspects of creating enhanced 'human' beings

The modern development of bionics and linking new technologies with the human nervous system or other biological systems, changes the human biological structure. Through technological progress and new systems, we design the world ; we act as creators of meaning in which organic and inorganic ‘nature, ’ humans, computers and machines integrate, making a single matrix entity – the Cyborg. In the twenty-first century human enhancement techniques and other emerging technologies have promised to ‘help’ humans become ‘more than human, ’ trying to create human beings with greatly enhanced abilities, to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities, to strive for progress and improvement of the human condition in which humans are in control of their own evolution. Here fundamental questions arise, such as: what it means to be human and what is – descriptive aspect – and what should be – normative aspect – a human being? In this chapter we provide a description of different levels of human body Cyborgisation. Modern man is gradually disappearing as a natural being and increasingly turning into an artificial creature ‘Cyborg’ that leads into the question, what will ultimately remain human in a human body? In which direction can we expect further development of Cyborgisation and where are the boundaries that will strictly divide a man from a Cyborg in the near future? In order to protect the man from the omnipotence of technology and its unethical application it is necessary to establish Cyborgoethics that would determine the implementation of an artificial boundary in the natural body.

Computers and Society, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Transhumanism

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