Cyborgs... a combination of machine and "organism," described as a creature of social reality and a creature of fiction. I guess cyborgs are extremely loosely described if we can talk about humans as being cyborgs if we're cyborgs because we take medicine. We also give animals medicine if they need it, does that make them cyborgs as well? "The cyborg is a matter of fiction and lived experience that changes what counts as women's experience in the late twentieth century. This is a struggle over life and death, but the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion," according to Haraway.
When I envision a cyborg, I see Star Trek like creatures, that are made up of both human and artificial or science fiction like parts. I don't think of taking human made medicine as making humans like cyborgs at all. If humans ever truly evolved into cyborgs, I believe we would be more like computers when conceived or we'd have to scientifically alter genetic make ups or replace human parts with machine parts to become actual cyborgs. Just the thought of humans as cyborgs is apalling to me but maybe its inevitable?
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