ABSTRACT
Usually “cyborg” (cybernetic organism) means a “self-regulating organism that combines the natural and artificial together in one system” (Gray 2001, 2). Cyborgs are mixed beings of animal and technology, man and technology or technological and organic or biologic parts. However, this mixture does not imply that these differences are “neutralized” by the cyborg. Rather, anthropological questions operating at differences, those between man, animal, plant and automat, become a topic of discussion already in a double sense: on the one hand, the cyborg appears as a figure where the boundaries between body and technology are blurred. Of course, technology can be incorporated not only into the human body, but also into animals or even plants. Vice versa, technological systems can be linked to biologic parts, for example, by combining micro-organisms and micro-processors. From films and TV we know about plenty of examples of androids covered under human skin. Such cases are either human, animal or android cyborgs.
