Comments on: But what is a cyborg, really? http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/19/but-what-is-a-cyborg-really/ A Research 2.0 Project about Participation in Web 2.0 Environments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Peter Giger http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/19/but-what-is-a-cyborg-really/#comment-40 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:48:46 +0000 http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/19/but-what-is-a-cyborg-really/#comment-40 O, I like that thought. So you mean that all communication produces a cyborg of the communicating parts. That for example, you and I now has become a cyborg entity - and perhaps togehter with the technology we communicate with. In that case my description of the cyborg becomes quite harmless. I have to invent another word - or is there one already? I do not think so, but who knows... ...come to think of it, Donna Haraway writes that Earth is a cyborg, a feedback system, self-organizing system.... (Gray, The Cyborg Handbook) O, I like that thought. So you mean that all communication produces a cyborg of the communicating parts. That for example, you and I now has become a cyborg entity - and perhaps togehter with the technology we communicate with.

In that case my description of the cyborg becomes quite harmless. I have to invent another word - or is there one already? I do not think so, but who knows…

…come to think of it, Donna Haraway writes that Earth is a cyborg, a feedback system, self-organizing system…. (Gray, The Cyborg Handbook)

]]> by: The Opponent http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/19/but-what-is-a-cyborg-really/#comment-31 Tue, 30 May 2006 22:35:20 +0000 http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/19/but-what-is-a-cyborg-really/#comment-31 I would like to get your comment on my thought that any (feedback?) control system involving more than one part, and at least one of them being biological, could be considered a cyborg. Since cybernetics is about feedback systems, there is really not any need for bolts-and-nuts parts. Hence, two (or more) biological entities constituting a feedback system could also be considered a cyborg? I would like to get your comment on my thought that
any (feedback?) control system involving more than one part, and at least one of them being biological, could be considered a cyborg.

Since cybernetics is about feedback systems, there is really not any need for bolts-and-nuts parts. Hence, two (or more) biological entities constituting a feedback system could also be considered a cyborg?

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