We are Robots

My post is also concerning the Star Tribune article "Is a robot's arm better than a Surgeon's hand", however I am going to approach it differently. So here goes my supposed letter to the editor.

Dear Editor,

The article the Star Tribune recently featured about robotic technology being used in surgery is one of many historical markers that illuminate humanity's path from the pre-industrial era as mostly human to where we are now, as trans-human. I am going to make the bold claim that we are already robots. One need only engage in some healthy introspection in order to find at least a partial truth. Before I go any further, anyone reading this garbage should shed whatever conceptions of robotics they personally hold and adopt the idea of robotics that I'm suggesting - that human-robotics is more a measure of the increasing social relations between humanity and technology.

The concept of robotics that science fiction has developed throughout the course of its history is NOT the same concept I'm developing. I'm talking about cyborgs - I'm talking about biological life forms like humans existing with and depending on various pieces of technology in order to exist and continue existing.

A prime example of the type of robotics I'm discussing is the increasing reliance on technology to communicate with one another. Whereas in the pre-industrial era one might not be able to pick up the phone or sign into their G-mail account to communicate with eachother, now, in the post-industrial era, humanity itself is almost completely linked up through our technology. Computers and laptops are better described as cyborg appendages as opposed to commodities that exist outside of our material bodies.

Patients may be rejecting treatment and surgery if it comes from the robotic appendage of a Doctor willing to utilize the latest technology. But they are simply trying to pretend that the transition to trans-humanism isn't already underway. I, on the other hand, would welcome any sort of surgery at the steady, reliable hands of cyborg robotics.