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"They said they'd make me stronger, I dont feel stronger"
One of the ongoing themes in sci-fi, especially in older works, is dehumanization by cybernetics. Personally, I don't believe in it, but what I do know is that loss of limbs can have a profound impact on the psyche of some people. I think this lion is one of those people. You can replace a hand with a steel one, but you don't identify with it, cuz in your mind it's not "yours", it's just a hunk of metal on the end of a stump.
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One of the ongoing themes in sci-fi, especially in older works, is dehumanization by cybernetics. Personally, I don't believe in it, but what I do know is that loss of limbs can have a profound impact on the psyche of some people. I think this lion is one of those people. You can replace a hand with a steel one, but you don't identify with it, cuz in your mind it's not "yours", it's just a hunk of metal on the end of a stump.
This nameless lion ©
texascoyoteArt © He who makes with hands of bone, me
Category All / All
Species Lion
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File Size 418.9 kB
Modern science has a good explanation for that phenomenon. (Do doo be do do. Do do be do.)
Essentially, the brain maintains a map of what the body looks like, and things like phantom limb syndrome or feeling like your arm isn't really part of your body happen when that map and the body differ. It's also what causes out of body experiences.
Essentially, the brain maintains a map of what the body looks like, and things like phantom limb syndrome or feeling like your arm isn't really part of your body happen when that map and the body differ. It's also what causes out of body experiences.
Yeah the "cybernetics eat your soul" trope has always been abit over played to me in a lot of works. many people have had their limbs replaced already and its mostly positive. Saw one guy who lost his arm in a motorcycle wreck, but was fitted with a new prototype prosthesis that links directly to his nerves. The guy was overjoyed to have a arm again.
Well, a complete dehumanization, like say Cyberpsychos from Cyberpunk 2020 is kinda unrealistic anyway, especially since it would mean to replace pretty much every body part partially or fully with cybernetics. We don't have that technology yet and maybe never will. But as you already said, having something attached to your body, that even with surpressing drugs feels just not as part of you on a biological level, can change someones psyche, maybe even personality. As a whole, we don't know much about how each body part and organ affects the psycho-chemical buildup of a person, and since we know madness is often just a slight chemical imbalance in a persons brain...yeah. Too much accumulated imbalance and change due to too much applied cybernetics could alter a persons being quite heavily.
I guess it goes with that "I never asked for this" theme because sure, you got shot, blown, sliced, and other horrible events that has caused that person to nearly die, but is abruptly brought back to the living without anybody's say. I guess while watching Bladerunner, Ghost in the Shell, and playing Deus Ex it shows a lot out of what it means to be a living being.
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