more cyborg thingies to read

http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Porush.html -> Transcendence at the Interface: The Architecture of Cyborg Utopia -- or --Cyberspace Utopoids as Postmodern Cargo Cult
David Porush
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The way to get to utopia is to model your view of human nature and then invent a technology to control or direct that model"
"In short, the posthuman is the inscription of the ultimate controlling technology onto the human, the cybernetic technologies of selfhood, of mental identity, of cognition, of the mind, of intelligence itself, of communication, of language, and of The Code. To that extent, we are all cyborgs already, controlled by the systems we've embraced or which have embraced and defined us through our media, our computers, our systems of communication. For this reason, virtual reality, or cyberspace, is the perfect expression of postmodern trends."
"the desire to leave the body but keep the mind."
 " The projection of utopian wishes onto cyberspace represents a nostalgic desire to return to some sacramental space. After all, cyberspace, like other heavens, won't really be a place, but rather the simulation of a place, a virtual space."
"If cyberspace is utopian it is because it opens the possibility of using the deterministic platform for unpredictable ends (as the laws of chaos are teaching us is possible), launching us into ever-higher orders of complexity as we fluctuate non-linearly in this far-from-equilibrium cyborg system. Perhaps, who knows, we might even grow a system large and complex and unstable enough to leap across that last of all possible bifurcations -- autopoetically -- into that strangest of all possible attractors, the godmind, just as Gibson predicts. It's pretty to think so, anyway. And both comforting and dismaying that even as postmoderns we still labor under these irresistible delusions."