From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 11:17:29 MDT
--- Natasha Vita-More <natasha@natasha.cc> wrote:
> The questions is whether Steve Mann, out of desire, is more of a
> cybernetic mechanism than someone who has integrated computers
> and synthetic systems into their bodies out of life-preserving
> necessity (and, as much, evolutionary).
I would dispute this. The only real difference between the two is that
you can unplug the first sort and they don't die on you, so you get to
observe all of the withdrawal effects. The second category would, I
posit, experience similar withdrawal pangs if they lived long enough
after the removal.
This might be experienced by those in the middle ground. For example,
individuals with cochlear or optic implants. An experiment on such
individuals who have their implants turned off or removed to guage the
effects.
When you unplug someone with life preserving implants, they may only be
distracted from the pain of withdrawal only because the pain of dying
is so much worse that the withdrawal fades into the noise.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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