(No Limits)
by Mark C. Taylor (Author)
Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body?
What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural?
What is artificial?
Science fiction has long imagined a
future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us―especially
people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases―have functionally
become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies. The
combination of artificial intelligence with implants, transplants,
prostheses, and genetic reprogramming is transforming medical research
and treatment, and it is now also transforming what we thought was human
nature.
Mark C. Taylor identifies this process as
“intervolution” and explores how it is weaving together smart things and
smart bodies to create new forms of life. Our wired bodies are no
longer freestanding individuals, but interconnected nodes in worldwide
networks. Recognizing this transformation overturns deeply entrenched
distinctions and oppositions between minds and bodies. Intervolution reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.
