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===Definition=== | ===Definition=== | ||
A prosthetic is a term for anything that is a replacement or addition to the body or a body part. | A prosthetic is a term for anything that is a replacement or addition to the body or a body part. | ||
| + | Generally the term prosthetic is used to describe external attachments and appendages, but there are increasing experiments with internal prosthetics attached to one's nervous system. A prosthetic that borders on internal and external prosthetic is the cochlear implant. Artificial hips are permanent implants, while hearing aids and dentures are removable. Neural implants and prosthetics are generally used as substitutes for sensory input such as sight or sound. | ||
===Prosthetics in Everyday Life=== | ===Prosthetics in Everyday Life=== | ||
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===Types of Prosthetics=== | ===Types of Prosthetics=== | ||
| − | + | Intel Security Researcher Esteban Gutierrez defines four Implant types: "Cosmetic, Physical, Sensory, and | |
| + | Cognitive vs Function: Restorative, Enhancement, and Augment. Where | ||
| + | Restore means something like "make us whole again", Enhance means make a | ||
| + | capability better, and Augment means Add a new capability. Does this | ||
| + | make any sense and do you know of any attempts to categorize or build a | ||
| + | framework around how we modify ourselves as humans?" | ||
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| + | I think we were discussing types of evolution. There's also the idea of hastening evolution by external prosthetics. Cutting off millions of years of evolution by externalizing memories by means of a mobile device that one can add and subtract data from at will. Also the idea of being able to quickly slough off that external prosthetic (throwing out a phone and grabbing a new one with better features). Akin to the idea of a Saber Tooth tiger being able to take out the teeth and throw them at animals. This is what cavemen did with spears. Externalizing their teeth and claws so they didn't have to evolve them. | ||
[[Category:Book Pages]] | [[Category:Book Pages]] | ||
[[Category:Finished]] | [[Category:Finished]] | ||
Revision as of 23:43, 17 August 2011
Definition
A prosthetic is a term for anything that is a replacement or addition to the body or a body part. Generally the term prosthetic is used to describe external attachments and appendages, but there are increasing experiments with internal prosthetics attached to one's nervous system. A prosthetic that borders on internal and external prosthetic is the cochlear implant. Artificial hips are permanent implants, while hearing aids and dentures are removable. Neural implants and prosthetics are generally used as substitutes for sensory input such as sight or sound.
Prosthetics in Everyday Life
Examples of prosthetics in everyday life are glasses, contact lenses, replacement legs and arms, and anything else that augments the body and extends the use of a body part.
Types of Prosthetics
Intel Security Researcher Esteban Gutierrez defines four Implant types: "Cosmetic, Physical, Sensory, and Cognitive vs Function: Restorative, Enhancement, and Augment. Where Restore means something like "make us whole again", Enhance means make a capability better, and Augment means Add a new capability. Does this make any sense and do you know of any attempts to categorize or build a framework around how we modify ourselves as humans?"
I think we were discussing types of evolution. There's also the idea of hastening evolution by external prosthetics. Cutting off millions of years of evolution by externalizing memories by means of a mobile device that one can add and subtract data from at will. Also the idea of being able to quickly slough off that external prosthetic (throwing out a phone and grabbing a new one with better features). Akin to the idea of a Saber Tooth tiger being able to take out the teeth and throw them at animals. This is what cavemen did with spears. Externalizing their teeth and claws so they didn't have to evolve them.
