THE CYBORG QUESTION

Abstract

The question of cyborg is really a question about a person, his future and present, in the context of the increasing influence of modern technologies on the biological and social nature of man. The description of some anthropological and medical aspects of the cyborgization process (from the implantation of microchips into human organs to the complete replacement of some organs with artificial ones or even up to the creation of additional organs) is accompanied by a philosophical analysis of texts by authors such as M. Heidegger, J. Simondon, D. Haraway and others who have devoted their reflection to the problems of modern technologies. Technology, which inevitably accompanies humanity throughout the history of its existence, puts a person face to face with a radically Other – an inhuman machine. Whether such an opposition will lead to the creation of a new cyborg ethic or to the destruction of man and his replacement by a machine is the question that the author of the article is trying to answer.