25 June 2009

Cybernetic Organism Finds No Home

Over a small number of blog entries and personal notes at home, I have explored the potential life of a cybernetic organism detached from the rest of the world in self-awareness, realizing no other being exists like it does. Today, I end the life of that cybernetic organism - I could find no resolution for its integration into human society except in subcultures where being fully human is a relative term, such as where diminished mental human faculties allow humans to co-exist without having to appear fully human. For instance, a cybernetic organism could serve as a roommate for a person with advanced Alzheimer's disease, adapting itself to a human who cannot clearly distinguish one human from another, or a cybernetic organism from a human, allowing the cybernetic organism to learn about humans in one state of existence while having free time to explore human knowledge via large stores of data dispersed across the Internet and contact with medical professionals and/or others who interface with the diseased human, developing a selfhood that may parallel humans or go in a completely new direction.

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