6.18.2018

Hugh Herr 2: How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential


Hugh Herr at TED2018
How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential  (transcript)
Summary
What are cyborgs?
Can a cyborg feel his legs?
Cyborg is a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.
I thought that the speaker was a cyborg because he lost both legs in a climbing accident though he became able to run, climb, skip, and dance by him building bionic limbs.
However, he tells us that he is a bionic man, but he is not yet a cyborg.
His commands that are movement desires are communicated to the synthetic part of his body by artificial electrodes sense: his nerve pulses, but those computers can't input information into his nervous system.
When he touches and moves his synthetic limbs, he does not experience normal touch and movement sensations.
If he was a cyborg, he could feel his legs via small computers inputting information into his nervous system.

His thoughts are to have new bodies. It means to have bodies that you can't see the line between the natural and synthetic worlds and to end disability. The key is to be neurally linked to synthetic limbs bidirectionally.
He was possible that. By connecting nervous systems bidirectionally to synthetic limbs, the neurological embodiment is achieved, and a person can think and move a person’s synthetic limbs, and one can feel those movements within one’s nervous systems. It's no longer a separate tool. A person becomes a cyborg and feeling is that the robot becomes part of the one. Not to feel like a cyborg is that becoming a cyborg and extending human potential.

Words in this story
bionics /noun/ the study of mechanical systems that function like living organisms or parts of living organisms.
blur /verb/ make or become unclear or less distinct.  cloud, fog
amputate /verb/  cut off, sever, remove (surgically),
artificial /adj/ made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural.
prosthetics /noun/ artificial body parts; prostheses.
proprioceptive /adj/ sense
bidirectional /adj/ functioning in two directions.

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