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Cyborg, a definition of human?

You are prescribed antibiotics, if you take them are you just aiding your body's immune system or are you chemically and mechanically enhancing yourself? When you are driving a car you are human mixed with machine, you are a cyborg. What exactly is a cyborg? When we take medication, receive a prosthetic leg or even wear shoes we are adding mechanical substitutes to ourselves. Where is the line drawn between organic and artificial?
A definition of cyborg is that "cyborg" is short for cybernetic organism. Cyborg theorists Gray, Mentor, and Figeroa-Sarriera define cyborg as "the melding of the organic and mechanic or engineering of a union between separate organic systems."(p.3) In You Are Cyborg an example of a mechanical addition is wearing shoes. Haraway stated that "the interaction of medicine, diet, training practices, clothing and equipment manufacturing, visualization and time keeping" are all mechanical enhancements.
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