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This is Neil Harbisson, the color-blind artist you may have read about in “The Real Cyborgs” by Arthur House (p. 921), who wears an external antenna connected to a chip in his brain that allows him to perceive colors through sound vibrations. He is also considered the first person to be officially recognized as a “cyborg,” and is even shown with his antenna on his British passport.
How would Francis Fukuyama respond to Harbisson? Would he call him an “enhanced creature”? Would he consider him no longer human?
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