Speaking of which, gender has new meaning where technology supports a synthesis of roles so that we have no special feathers and no gender dominance. Male and female will always have biophysical meaning, but the window-dressing of gender stereotypes is no longer necessary. The characteristics of men, women, and synthesized relationships take on an ad hoc quality, emerging from immediate context rather than from bogus tradition. The cyborg no longer accepts the authority in the sense of a unified ego-structure, recognizing instead that any organism is produced from a multiplicity of codes and that ego is an operating system without superior valence. The point is they are not.
Cyborgs comprise more than the sum of their parts, which can be either physical or informational.
But it is essential to acknowledge the parameters of the various parts to understand the parameters that limit the whole. Again in the Buddhist tradition, it's important to acknowledge that each part interdepends not just with parts of the single organism, but with parts of all organisms and inorganic pieces of the universe as well. In the sense of mystical, spiritual, even newage philosophical approaches without associated superstitious or fantastic elements, we are all one, and at the same time we are all syntheses of a multiplicity of codes. If we don't begin to acknowledge what is both intuitively and scientifically established, which contradicts our usual ego-dominant way of doing business with blinders on, charging ahead without reference to context, it won't really matter. Our failure to learn to tread water will not prevent the inevitable flood, y'might say.