Talk:Cyborg
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Glad the Terminator issue was resolved, but (and I hate to start up this debate again) in Terminator 2 Judgement Day, the T-800 refers to the T-1000 (according to [1], which coincidentally is cited in the article) as a "mimetic polyalloy". (I remember him saying "animetal polyalloy, but perhaps i misheard). At any rate, there is an error in the article. Dessydes 18:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Adding Cyborg film examples
Would it be appropriate to add some examples of cyborgs in film and Television?
There's already a link to cyborgs in fiction. Dessydes 13:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Silly
This whole article is silly because it tries to ridiculise the concept of cyborgs. Are people with pacemakers, neural implants or insulin pumps cyborgs? YES But stating that a notepad or a cellphone makes you a cyborg is ridiculous as those are not part of one's body.
- Read some works by Alexander Chislenko, or ancillary works in cultural evolution, anthropology, and philosophy of technology (e.g. James Burke). Although popular culture has largely depicted cyborgs as humans with synthetic materials interwoven into their flesh, the academic argument of cyborgization has centered on how technology has modified humans in reciprocity for humans modifying their technology -- that all technology are mere extensions of the human body. This perspective is at least as old as John Locke's treatise on labor and private property. 71.162.255.58 18:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Exactly the article is quite well written. It is trying to point out that the concept of what it is depends on your personal perspective. Dessydes 13:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
- Heh, isn't that NNPOV? -- Ned Scott 13:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral does not equate to Objective. As has been emphasized lately in Wikipedian culture (zealotously in too many cases, IMHO), Wikipedia seeks verification not truth. Sometimes people play this card just to be change-prohobitive, such as not being able to write that water is wet unless you can cite a reputable source which has expressed this. Too much tacit knowledge is lost because some people in the community take the verification requirement to an unproductive extreme. However, in this article, it seems to me that we have room to summarize the academic categorizations of cyborgs (further extended in Cyborg theory) and room for speculative and fictional exemplars (detailed excrutiatingly in Cyborgs in fiction). The former seeks to create a foundation for cyborgization as a field of study (hence the Navigation Template) whereas the latter explores the imagination of what possibilities cyborgization holds for the future of humanity. Suryadas 00:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough but you must carefully watch any adding so that it is not original research or wikipedia will become a breeding ground for every half-baked theory thought up while on the can. (BTW if anyone does get a brilliant idea while on the can that's no reason to disregard it but wikipedia is NOT the place to first publish it)--Energman 13:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral does not equate to Objective. As has been emphasized lately in Wikipedian culture (zealotously in too many cases, IMHO), Wikipedia seeks verification not truth. Sometimes people play this card just to be change-prohobitive, such as not being able to write that water is wet unless you can cite a reputable source which has expressed this. Too much tacit knowledge is lost because some people in the community take the verification requirement to an unproductive extreme. However, in this article, it seems to me that we have room to summarize the academic categorizations of cyborgs (further extended in Cyborg theory) and room for speculative and fictional exemplars (detailed excrutiatingly in Cyborgs in fiction). The former seeks to create a foundation for cyborgization as a field of study (hence the Navigation Template) whereas the latter explores the imagination of what possibilities cyborgization holds for the future of humanity. Suryadas 00:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
It is worth pointing out that the concept of the cyborg has evolved since the term was coined. Once a euphemism for the hybridisation of 'man and machine' is has now evolved to also consider (amongst much more besides and in between) the networks that go into allowing us do what we do on a daily basis: even something as simple as jotting down notes on a pad with a pencil. Extending our bodily network outwards to using that pencil enables us to do something we would otherwise be unable to do...and further, extending those networks out again and again, were it not for those who went into making those pencils, we wouldn't be able to even buy them in the first place. And so the argument continues. Simply categorizing things/bodies as 'man/machine' cyborgs is not always accepted, though by virtue of saying that it is a mixture of 'nature and culture' it is often critiqued as reinforcing the binary oppositions the cyborg hoped to eliminate. Certainly in academia, it is not just used as a theoretical tool but as an ontological perspective too. (HM) 15:26, 19 October 2006.
- This is simply ridiculous there is very little in this article on the actual concept of a conventional cyborg. Pen and paper make people cyborg? That is far from the conventional concept. There is VERY little on stuff like pacemakers, robotic limbs, electronic brain interfaces, etc. I came to this article because I am currently watching a show on the discovery channel about cyborgs and its talking about some incredible stuff, very little of which is present in this article.Eno-Etile 01:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- I've added an "expert needed" tag to this article to help make it less about fiction and more about the actual science involved. I will try to clean it up a little in the future, but I'm no expert myself. Robotman1974 11:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Just curious did anyone see the Discovery Channel program I was referring to? It was shown recently (the date of my last post on this page), and was about cyborgs.Eno-Etile 08:39, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Darth Vader != Omar cyborg
Leaving aside the rather dubious definition of "Omar cyborg" I must point out that Darth Vader is NOT such a cyborg. He has numerous implants throughout his body and on top of those he wears his black armor. I'm changing the caption under the picture. If anyone wants to change it back first give arguments here --Energman 13:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
