The Law Book of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clark: Human Born Cyborg Notes 0-2

Introduction

origin of the cyborg (rather reengineering the space ships for comfort, why not reengineer the humans?)

Manfred Clynes: chief research scientist at Rockland State Hospital and an expert on the design and development of physiological measuring equipment
remarked that it sounded “like a town in Denmark."
For the exogenously extended organizational complex . . . we propose the term “cyborg.” The Cyborg deliberately incorporates exogenous components extending the self-regulating control function of the organism in order to adapt it to new environments
“cyborg” stood for Cybernetic Organism or Cybernetically Controlled Organism;
it was a term of art meant to capture both a notion of humanmachine merging and the rather specific nature of the merging envisaged

1955) classic cyborg: rat with implanted Rose osmotic pump. The pump automatically injects chemicals into the rat to form a biotechnological control loop, which can be adapted to unusual conditions (for example, survival in space

100 tips on array connect to nerve fibers in wrist and linked to wires in arm and then linked via radio contact to a computer
disconnected nerve transmission to the brain.

have a matching but surface-level device connected to his wife, Irena
signals accompanying actions, pains, and pleasures could then be copied between the two implants, allowing Irena’s nervous system to be stimulated by Kevin’s and vice versa

able to control the movements of a live cockroach by hooking its motor neurons to a microprocessor
electronically mediated control of some muscular function
paralyzed stroke patient, fitted with a neurally implanted transmitter, has been able to will a cursor to move across a computer screen
rats with similar implants have learned to depress a reward-generating lever by just thinking about it
female orgasm-generating electronic implant