Rehabilitation And Assistance Technology: Road To Transhumanization

Rehabilitation and Assistance Technology: Road to Transhumanization

As for technological transformation, human life has greatly changed for good. In fact, one of the fields where determining factors can be observed is in assistance and rehabilitation technology. From there the question to be discussed: Is assistance and rehabilitation technology contributing to society healthy or is creating dilemmas linked to transhumanization?

Assistance and rehabilitation technology refers to those tools, creations, products or ideas that help someone with disabilities to overcome it, be successful, easily adapt to society and in addition to developing their personal autonomy. This technology also relies from various sciences such as biochemistry, biotechnology and engineering, thus making its use a great impact on the functional abilities of disabled people but also in the rest of society.

Man has always wanted to achieve that ideology of being super human, which is why we have a love-hate and envy relationship with the super heroes .What we do not know in particular is that thanks to technological evolution we can already be “super” when we want and that in addition to that when the rehabilitation technologies are indirectly applied to the disabled to the disabled.

We can demonstrate it with the invention of the exoskeletons, who help those who have lost the ability to walk through their own means. This idea began as a tool in which the disabled can adapt to its environment without any difficulty.

But, is the implementation of an exoskeleton in a person with disabilities does not make it different from the rest and therefore also a super human? This is how many geniuses have thought and made exoskeletons as a rehabilitation tool to be the last trend for anyone to become an Iron Man, thus coupling so that a civilian with an exoskeleton can get up to 450 kg andThey can also fly.

Other clear examples of how the implement of assistance and rehabilitation technologies in disabled people can be a decisive step for the path to transhumanization could be the latest inventions such as exoskeleton prototypes with sensitive limbs for people without some part of their body, organsArtificially replaced in sick bodies which some organs no longer fulfill all the functions required for a good job of this, a blind car that allows vibrations to alert the driver, improve hearing for people with auditory disabilities by means of a hearing aidthat allows you to listen to long meters away or simply bionic legs or prostheses that make run faster.

Tecno-scientific advances make talking about super humans not unimaginable, we are all aware that technology can achieve everything. Using the tools provided by rehabilitation engineering is to increase human "powers" indirectly. Inventions such as prostheses, expand human capacities and not that is not a characteristic of super humans? Little by little we are transforming ourselves, leaving aside our deadly essence and wanting to go further regardless of the implications that this has.

Then it is worth asking, does the human being want to be more human or want to stop being human? When a person has some disability, he always thinks that he is no longer another human like the rest, he feels less and at a disadvantage with respect to others, therefore the way to replace what is no longer useful in his body and whatIt makes more "weak" for a technological implement that also provides him with the function he lost, in order to continue being an ordinary human being.

But perhaps, in this search process when providing a tool for such an impact and making it typical of your body is not leading it to a transformation where the body expands its abilities and is no longer composed of bones, meat, skin;If not, it also depends now on machines, metal, chips that make it less human and more transhuman.?That is, half a man. Half machine.

So what makes us human ?To what extent does a super human or a human-machine stop being human?Could this transformation be possible?.In my opinion I think this can happen.The use of assistance and rehabilitation technologies together with many other sciences related to them partly support this transhumanization process that can dehumanize us in the blink of an eye.Technology advances quickly, does not stop, more and more fulfills its function of replacing the natural and adding new things that gradually transform us creating a new species.

The prostheses a tool proposed by the assistance and rehabilitation technology which is a solution that has been of great help and utility to people who have lost limbs have been contemplated in the unrealistic world of comics as in X-Men where Forge lost a legAnd arm in the war but his mutant touch led him to develop robotic prostheses that led him to normal life. We see how the replacement of the natural by something artificial can lead to the super. Some prostheses are nothing more than artificial legs that leads a person to have special abilities, this makes society see a disabled person to someone with a potential that other bodies do not have.

The search for superhumanity using assistance and rehabilitation is surrounded by strong ethical dilemmas. Transhumanism in rehabilitation can have many complications if it is not handled properly. But, without a doubt, the first victim of transhumanism will be equality. Thus leading to discuss the capabilities that match us and those that put some above others.

If the assistance and rehabilitation technology provides humans to incorporate in their body and give up better, new ethical, social, moral dilemmas arise as they are, if they are improved and superior to the rest what rights, duties or privileges could have orwhich will be kept? And the most important question would those privileges and rights be different from those of humans?.Or on the other hand, as we humans would be forced to be at the same level as the transhomen would be at a disadvantage?.It is clear that there would be an imbalance in the coexistence of the two species that would become a great social problem since so much power in a human being can corrupt until doing everything possible to prevent them from overcoming it, would this be a risk?.

We can see how humans have that need to overcome, break the limits, go in search of superman and get ahead despite the consequences.And this practically what I wanted to put into play by devising a method that would let me approach those rehabilitated people and make use of them to find an answer to the problems that the technologies mentioned above lead to society at this time of transhumanism.

The first thing I did was approach a cousin who has a prosthesis in his right leg replacing his limb.In that I ask if your prosthesis made it more or less powerful.He without thinking answered what more powerful since it was a tool that not everyone has in his body, that few could be coupled, which allowed him to see the world in another way, learn to value things and that is also something that every timeIt makes it better with the fact of overcoming and facilitating "your problem".In a nutshell his prostheses (technological assistance tool) helped him improve their physical, intellectual abilities and morales could be said to make it stronger.Perhaps this is not the definition of transhumanism?, That is where we begin to notice certain superiority features of a posthuman.

Then, I asked him if his prosthesis cured him or improved him.He told me that he cured him to have the same capabilities as others (in this case walking, running, playing) but not to do something that others could not do.With this answer I could see that the path to transhumanization has more variables to take into account how words are improved and cured.

It is clear that assistance and rehabilitation technologies somehow help cure a disability, but on the other hand transhumanism proposes to improve the human being to make it transhuman and then posthuman.That is where you have to take into account what is sought with the implementation of these assistance tools, if it is to go from a capacity to an entertainment or augmented capacity in a healthy person, move from a disability to a capacity, move from a disabilityto an overcapacity or moving from a ability to a disability.

These borders between the cure, improves and the superman do not begin to be so clear, and that is where you have to take into account how these technologies are used, if they are to cure (move from a disability to a capacity) such as implementingA normal prostroys in the body of someone who has lost a limb; or enhancing the human being (moving from a disability to an overcapacity), such as the “Cheetah” prosthesis with which the Oscar Pistorius corridor won his career of which he wasHe said that they made him run faster, demonstrating that this is where this gap is broken.

Transhumanization also makes us disabled also, that increase in capacity that new technologies give us is to take away those that we naturally have and sell new new ones that are improved.They will disable us to move from a natural capacity to a technological material and this will happen with the majority natural capabilities that we have (to move from a disability capacity).

Transhumanismo will be a slave factory where in addition to being slaves to a material world we will depend on technologies, assistance and rehabilitation technology is not saved.This happens with the prostheses, where people become dependent and partly slaves of this tool to live normal and in addition to this the natural functioning of some limb is left aside.That is where the hypothesis that transhumanization will lead to posthumans to replace human beings, thus exterminating the species completely.

I am totally convinced that our species could disappear.But why?.Basically, a species in transformation will lead to another species and so on every time there is a strong change in it.Because, seen from a biological point, a loss of sexual reproduction will be given, which is going to be the cause of the extermination of a species.

If a species does not reproduce, die.Hypothetically, a point will come where there will be little human and it will be necessary for them.But, they will not be able to reproduce with the super humans thanks to the high technology they have in themselves, but these advanced men will be able to do it among them.Which leads to the loss of the human species.

On the other hand, in a hypothetical case, it may also be that high technology causes super humans to be sterile, which does not even allow humans to be reproduced, which will also lead to the same human extermination.Yes or yes the human species will be forgotten being replaced by a new.

It is clear that we are living a technological revolution that advances exponentially and where we seek to become transhumans to survive this revolution. They need to train us as a biotechnological society that can overcome any technological revolution, and in part it is because I believe that rehabilitation technologies have also advanced lately, they need to start trying with people who need to do with skills with these can overcome them, improve them and make them somewhat superior, in order to do so with the rest of the species.

Taking into account the differences proposed above on the dilemma between cure and improve.It is clear that wanting to be more human is closely linked to the term cure, cure all those disabilities to be on par.On the other hand, wanting to become a superman is more linked to the idea of improving their abilities, being better than others regardless of anything.

Using technology in favor of disabled people would not be bad since it would be more human, but not superhuman, of course it is depending on the assistance and rehabilitation technology implemented taking into account that it does not provide superior capabilities to which whichThe others have those that are naturally given to us.

Technologies advance fast but knowing the human being costs more.We must not only think about how far transhumanization cannot lead but also take into account the ethical, social and moral consequences of the human being in progress that could affect other humans too.What consequence would the use of prostheses have that allow to run faster compared to those who do not have it in a race .Would this be fair or unfair?.

From there arises a competition that would not be healthy in terms of work, daily tasks, automation of things, efficiency, etc.If this is not taken into account, the implementation of assistance and rehabilitation technology would lead to a great conflict in creating new technological inequalities.

In conclusion, the use of tools that provide assistance and rehabilitation technology can become a path to transhumanism but depends on the use that is given to it and with the objective you have if it is to cure or improve, having inTell social problems such as inequalities.

Taking into account that the real problem is not whether a prosthesis is implemented or not, if bionic eyes are acquired or not, if it does not lie in the reflection of the human being.Get this to leave its ambition for power and raise awareness that we seek to make better humans but not change humans and turn them into machines.The real problem lies in the end that is wanted to implement the assistance and rehabilitation technology.Anyway, do we have to compete against this technology or hybridize with it?