i recently shared a listverse list on a Social Network (Link Below) and a family member started to go ape-sh*t on how it will destroy our "humanity" this made me annoyed that a possibly impending conflict might be already starting between people who want to stay "human" and people who want to enhance body parts or replace them.
What do you guys think?
http://listverse.com/2013/12/11/10-body-parts-science-is-replacing/

I'm ok with every thing in there except one: Growing a human brain. Ok, they stop before it starts thinking but I do hope there is no plan to get much further. I'd be totally fine with the reverse though, growing human bodies without brains for spare parts.

Yeah, that one is deeply disturbing. While we're at it, why don't we just set up skynet.

When is technology going to invent the ability to make humans live forever?

plz send me a pm when this happens

Some time ago I watched on tv (don´t remember the channel) a group of people who were researching this kind of thing (enhanced body senses), since they were based off of their basement, and they didn´t have a license to test those things since it´s not something that´s official, they tested their research on themselves. They put for example, magnets under their finger´s skin, and they claimed it made them aware of electric fields, kinda, like ants sense them.

Humans already became cyborgs when they first started using simple crutches, clothes, hairpins, glasses and hand-held tools. All those are examples of technology that extends the abilities of the human body or enable it to perform functions it was not been given by nature. Cybernetic limbs, hearts, brains and other organs are the same thing, only a bit more refined. In order for us to be fully "human", we would have to revert to animal ways and do only the things that we can accomplish using our teeth and nails, protecting ourselves with nothing but our skin.

I find it interesting, but I also wish there was as much innovation dealing with things like homelessness and hunger.

We're a long way away from a point where anyone would want to willingly replace a working body part with a cybernetic equivalent; such innovations are aimed at those with some disability or impairment in this area (where even a mediocre replacement is still better than none at all).

Don't worry, we'll send you a post-mortem when that happens. Of course, it'll be too late for you by then.

+1
That would be great but there is no money in this... So it won't happen.

"You can't play God!"

- "Someone has to!"

That is not what cyborg means, for one they have to be built into the human body. Glasses just correct your site, if you replaced your eyes or your retina maybe but glasses don't make you a cyborg. Secondly the beyond human limitation is not about fixing problems so you work as normal, you would have to work beyond normal. So a pacemaker only corrects the heart to normal if it allowed the heart to beat beyond normal endurance then that would potentially be in the realm of cyborg.

Your last statement is interesting because there are many animals that use tools and intelligence(birds and Apes come to mind) so why are they natural - or are you saying they aren't?

Personally I wouldn't mind replacing my legs with real, fully controlled bionic limbs, as I have a structual bone flaw on my feet. They're otherwise fine legs, mind you, but if I try to run or walk longer distances for an example my feet can get so painfull that I'll limb for a couple of days.

By that definition tattoos are also cybernetic implant because they're built into the body (just under the skin) and don't correct any flaws, but rather enhance the aesthetic factor or somesuch. You could also say that not being able to see in the dark is a "flaw" which can be corrected by some sort of implant. The line between correcting and improving something is blurry in many cases. And whether it's built into the body or used externally, that's just a matter of practicality!