The existence of humans with heavy levels of cybernetic augmentation and of larger numbers of other people with less extreme cybernetic implants lead to further arguments over what constitutes a " human being.

Beer saw this as a unique opportunity to implement his ideas of cybernetic management on a national scale, and also sympathized with the stated ideals of Chilean socialism, which aimed to maintain Chile's democratic system and the autonomy of workers instead of imposing a Soviet-style system of top-down command and control.

The first thing to note about the cybernetic theory of organizations encapsulated in the VSM is that viable systems are recursive ; viable systems contain viable systems that can be modeled using an identical cybernetic description as the higher ( and lower ) level systems in the containment hierarchy ( Beer expresses this property of viable systems as cybernetic isomorphism ).

* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " I, Borg ", a plan was made to destroy the entire race of Borg — malevolent cybernetic aliens whose minds were interconnected — by showing one of the Borg a picture of a highly complex impossible object.

Frank manages to conscript Bowman and HAL, who had fused into a new entity — Halman — and now reside in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus retrieved from Pico vault, a special containment facility on the moon used to house various chemical, biological, and cybernetic weapons in an attempt to avert a potential apocalypse.

For a cybernetic revolt to be inevitable, it has to be postulated that two intelligent species cannot pursue mutually the goals of coexisting peacefully in an overlapping environment — especially if one is of much more advanced intelligence and power.

Early on, Goldsmith had formulated a concept of the biosphere as an integrated cybernetic entity, the self-regulating parts ( of which he included tribal societies ) cooperating, largely unconsciously, for the mutual benefit of the whole — a view which anticipated aspects of the Gaia thesis, of which he was to become a leading proponent.

The " high-techs " — those who were bobbled later in time ( in the period of accelerating technological progress leading up to the singularity ) — have vastly superior technology, including cybernetic enhancements, faster and thought-controlled bobblers, personal automaton extensions of self, space ships, medical technology to allow practical immortality ( barring accidents or fatal injuries ), and individual arsenals comparable to entire countries of the 20th century.

This moved Grant to volunteer to become a Bronze Knight — a resistance group of Agorans who themselves used cybernetic implants to become stronger in order to defeat the Cybermen.

She escaped death by uploading her mind into a cybernetic body — a giant snake with a platinum alloy skin.

The storyline was set on Earth in the 22nd century following the Metal Wars, a cybernetic revolt that resulted in the subjugation of the human race by intelligent machines.

A number of experts believe that the concept of information metabolism, cybernetic modeling and general systems theory extends beyond of psychology and sociology, and consider the relationship of technical information devices, and the types of information human interactions as operator with various technical and electronic management systems of major industries, including chemical, nuclear power stations, complex computer complexes with adaptive tunable to a specific operator interfaces.

The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

She has extensive cybernetic modifications, including retractable, 4 cm double-edged blades under her fingernails which can be used like claws, an enhanced reflex system and implanted mirrored lenses covering her eyesockets, outfitted with added optical enhancements.

New enemies include Centroids, large cybernetic scorpions with nailguns, Gremlins, small goblins that can steal weapons and multiply by feeding on enemy corpses, and Spike Mines, floating orbs that detonate when near the player.

A civilisation with technology that has advanced a mere century beyond ours might be capable of biological and cybernetic projects way beyond what we can envision today.

Superhuman can mean an improved human, for example, by genetic modification, cybernetic implants, or as what humans might evolve into, in the near or distant future.

Wasp fights alongside Panther, Hawkeye ( who had also been decapitated and inhabits Janet's own former cybernetic body ), Forge, and a reformed Luke Cage and Spider-Man to save the people of New Wakanda from Firelord, Giant Man, Wolverine, Gladiator, Hulk, Jean Grey, and Iron Man, who are seeking to finish off humanity and retain the inter-dimensional portal so they can enter a new universe.

This produces a series of cybernetic cells, which can interact in a non-linear order.

They are not sequential ; for example, the fall of Tanith in the first chapter of Ghostmaker occurs before the siege on Fortis Binary in First and Only, which in turn takes place before the assault on Oskray Hive in Ghostmaker ( this latter time-line can be established by the mention of a cybernetic shoulder that was fitted to Sgt.

While a cybernetic revolt ( where the machine is the more advanced species ) is thus a possible outcome of machines gaining sentience and / or sapience, neither can it be disproven that a peaceful outcome is possible.

Some groups, called Singularitarians, who advocate what might be defined as a peaceful ( non-violent, non-invasive, non-coercive ) cybernetic revolt known as a ' technological singularity ', argue that it is in humanity's best interests to bring about such an event, as long as it can be ensured that the event would be beneficial.

This approach results in a hybrid system combining biological and engineering parts, which can also be referred as a cybernetic organism ( cyborg ).

All of these can assist Mario in combatting the game's primary antagonist, Sir Grodus, the cybernetic leader of the Secret Society of X-Nauts and the game's final boss, the Shadow Queen.

Cute cybernetic toys that are a hit in Japan among schoolgirls, PataPies are miniature robots that can be upgraded by purchasing better components and equipping it with special devices, like the Kame Hame Maki that can tell fortunes from horoscopes.

is a manga series by Buichi Terasawa about a detective named who gains a cybernetic eye implant that can control any computer system.

The black-and-monochromatic juxtaposition can take a variety of forms, including brightly colored hair and make-up, cybernetic patterns such as live LED circuit boards, body modification, gas masks and goggles ( especially aviator-style ), typically worn on the forehead or around the neck rather than on the eyes.

As Renascence, she wears a suit equipped with six metal cybernetic tentacles that can discharge surges of electricity from its claws.

Controlled by a cybernetic link, the wings can be instantly reconfigured into " dozens of different cruise configurations ".

Allan realises she can reproduce this in all future Cybermen, which will prevent their bodies rejecting the cybernetic implants.

Standard Tachikoma equipment includes a 7. 62x51mm light machine gun mounted in the right arm, a secondary weapon hardpoint in the " snout " ( a 50 mm grenade launcher, capable of launching both explosive and gas grenades which can be replaced by a six-barrelled 12. 7x99mm Gatling gun ), a universal cybernetic connector on an extensible, prehensile cable in the left arm, liquid wires that can be used for grappling, rappelling or for restraining purposes and a built-in thermoptic camouflage system.

In the film's sequel, War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, a kind of Heat-ray can be seen firing from the squid-walkers, a living race of flying cybernetic tripods.

Another ' cybernetic ' approach to computer composition uses specialized hardware to detect external stimuli which are then mapped by the computer to realize the performance.

However, a creature named Gith, who appears only as a disembodied cybernetic head, runs a hyper-corporation called Gith Industries whose " employees " are little more than slaves.

* Computers are also found inside of some humans in the form of cybernetic implants.

In the ensuing cybernetic revolt, all humans in Metropolis 4 are quickly dispatched, including the upper hierarchy of the corporation and its CEO, Mr Oton.

After World War II, mathematician Norbert Wiener developed cybernetic theory, that proposed that systems are controlled by monitoring their results.

Bateson thinks of the mind neither as an autonomous metaphysical force nor as a mere neurological function of the brain, but as a " dehierarchized concept of a mutual dependency between the ( human ) organism and its ( natural ) environment, subject and object, culture and nature ", and thus as " a synonym for a cybernetic system of information circuits that are relevant for the survival of the species.

His feelings slowly returning, he's warned that this time a jump into a new host body could be a damaging experience for his soul, and even if the new shell Magnus built for him mimicks perfectly every function of a human body, its computational abilities are far inferior than his current cybernetic mind.

The fourth level is an ancient facility in which Kyle and the dragon are pursued by both Imperial airships and cybernetic sentinels left behind by the ancient civilization.

Although Victor's cybernetic enhancements are entirely endoskeletal instead of exoskeletal as they are in the comics and other media, a shot of Clark Kent's X-ray vision reveals that Victor's cranial armor covers the same-shaped area as it does in the comics.

Organs are also replaced by superior cybernetic implants.

In its mid-21st century Japan setting such attacks are made all the more threatening by an even more widespread use of technology including cybernetic enhancements to the human body allowing people themselves to be direct targets of cyberterrorist attacks.

Very few actual details about this religion are known, except that it appears to be centered on the worship of robots, computers and cybernetic technology ( adherents are, in one episode, said to use " Worship Modules " which are electronic in nature ).

She now sports a cybernetic arm and eye, the origins of which are unexplained.

The Strogg are a warlike cybernetic race, infamous for the systematic replacement of their ranks with prisoners of war, " stroggified " and assimilated through the modification of their bodies with mechanical weaponry and prosthetics.

The Adamists are ' classic ' humans who employ mechanical and cybernetic technology and use implants ( including ' neural nanonics ', essentially computer systems built into the brain which allow anything from enhanced memory and entertainment access to controlling starships ) to achieve their ends.

The Cylons are a cybernetic civilization at war with the Twelve Colonies of humanity in the Battlestar Galactica science fiction franchise, in the original 1978 and 1980 series, the 2004 reimagining, as well as the spin-off prequel series, Caprica.

But simply saying that the process is " autopoietic " is to evade the task of identifying the multiple and mutually reinforcing cybernetic processes that are at work.