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itsamemario
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I think it's universally accepted in the scientific community that the mind is what defines a person, and the mind is located in the brain. As long as said cyborg has full control of his brain, or in other words only has cybernetic appendages, then that cyborg qualifies as a human being and falls under any governing convention regarding human rights.
On the other hand, if the cyborg only has human parts added to an artificial central processing unit or a logic board, in a manner where they can be seen as devices, then it is a computer, and has no human rights, even though it may employ a brain as a device.
Harvesting the computing power and memory powers of a real brain will be a feat that will change the face of humanity for good.
Hopefully Hollywood will have made enough films warning of the dangers that may arise, before the technology allows us such a conquest :P

edit: wrote virtually instead of universally


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All depends if we are talking about a cybernetic brain that makes someone a cyborg, it doesn't seem like pathogens could interfere with an artificial brain. Plus it would lead me to believe there would be some nanomachines in the bloodstream to combat disease...just saying.

Anyone Ghost In The Shell fans hurrr?


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All depends if we are talking about a cybernetic brain that makes someone a cyborg, it doesn't seem like pathogens could interfere with an artificial brain. Plus it would lead me to believe there would be some nanomachines in the bloodstream to combat disease...just saying.

Anyone Ghost In The Shell fans hurrr?


Your argument supposes that zombiefication only can happen through an infectious agent, and when we are dealing with fiction, or parafiction, or metafiction or what the fuck the correct term would be, then we must be open to all possibilities, including a proverbial deus ex machina, and if I'm not mistaken, the first zombies, by the definition flesh-hungry undead, was summoned by the goddess Ishtar in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
If indeed there ever is a situation where a deity has awoken the undead AND we have computer brains, I think we're already too fucked to care about the faith of some fuckbots.


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