It is time to take a step back and examine how we view “technology” and “progress” and the potential creation of a utopian future society.

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I am writing this after having responded to a respected friend, a bioethicist with whom I am connected via Facebook. In his photo albums, he has a picture of a protected area for dogs in Thailand. This got me thinking.

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The concept of embodiment often does not offer a corresponding explanation for the variety of personalities that a human being expresses once within the Internet’s intricate social network.

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When I was five, I played with my first toy robot.

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I was born into a world where the telephone was still wired and had a circular dial to ring up someone.

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Yesterday, I saw a movie by the name “The Land of the Dead”.

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Some deaf way wish to revolt against the hearing world and defend the autonomy of deaf culture. But not everyone has the luxury to revolt. For the unwilling deaf, there are now cochlear implants.

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IEET Intern VR Manoj has posted a nice collage of IEET folks.

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On April 23,2007 Prof. Kevin Warwick, author of I, Cyborg addressed the World Transhumanist Association’s Second Life chapter on “Upgrading Humans: Why not?”

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Cyborgs are often imagined as devoid of emotion and empathy. We need a new understanding of the cyborg, one with the capacity for altruism and love.

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- V.R. Manoj and Jayapaul Azariah
Post Graduate Student of Microbiology,
1160, 6th Avenue, Z-Block, Annanagar, Chennai - 600040, India

-  Jayapaul Azariah, Ph.D.
President, All India Bioethics Association,
New No. 4, 8^th Lane, Indiranagar, Chennai 600 020. India

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Abstract

This paper examines ethical issues associated with cyborgs. A core issue is whether the cyborg body offers a fredom for the fantasies of the mind. It is a freedom that enables the mind to explore into the new environments. To characterize such a cyborg based freedom for fantasy creation, we propose the term “CYBOFREE”.

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