loosely woven

The invisible cyborgs

Building my parts

I was daydreaming while coding with Claude Code, thinking about an old thought from Phycho-Pass. The show is about a society governed by ``Sibyl System’’—AI systems that don’t just help you, but manage the everything of your life. In this world, people don’t just use technology; they are tethered to it. And this is happening in our world too.

In an episode, Toyohisa Senguji, a character who replace every biological cell with mechanical components until he was 110 years of age and entirely synthetic, poses a question that feels less like science fiction now:

“You probably have home automation and an digital secretary. What would happen to you if all the data in those devices was lost due to a disaster or accident? When you entrust so much of your everyday life to those electronic devices, the argument that you aren’t a cyborg isn’t very convincing. To you, those portable terminals are already your second brain. Isn’t that right?”

We tend to think of ``cyborgs’’ as people with metal limbs. But Senguji’s suggests we are already there.

Building my parts

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