Cyborgism

Cyborgs are defined as biological entities meshed with machine. Humanity has gone far down this road - far enough to begin having trouble defining what is human and what is cyborg. Transhumanists like to try to equate eyeglasses and contact lenses to having been morphed into a cyborg, but this argument falls flat, as those are removable. Wearing corrective lenses makes one no more a cyborg than if one drives an automobile.

Ethicists, and humanity in general, are having a tough time seeing that humans are being made into cyborgs. The camel snuck its nose under the tent when mobility was returned to injured soldiers. Being as this, on it’s face, seems a noble cause, it puts one in an ethically challenged situation. Considering current technologies, which include implanting computer chips into the bodies of the afflicted in order to allow movement of mechanical limbs, the line of what is a human and what is a cyborg becomes very grey.

Transhumanists seek to cure death, in part, through adding cyborgenics into their beings. According to some leading futurists, the future of humanity is the ultimate cyborg – a machine in which the only remaining human aspect is the intellect and, if you read other sections of this website, even human intellect will be suspect to be kept intact.

The Center for the Preservation of Humanity objects to the creation of cyborgs, objects to the practices currently taking place to create today’s cyborgs, objects to the legal framework which allows such practices, and seeks to preserve our biologically human aspects including bodily autonomy free from technological devices and especially any implantable circuit or nanotechnology that has any potential to alter thought patterns within a human.