zu new species

“Connected to cameras, instruments and engine controls, the brain sees, feels, and responds to sti-muli.
It is in control of its own destiny.
The machine is its body; it is the machine’s mind.
The union of mind and machine has created a new form of existence, as well designed for life in the future as man is designed for life on the African savanna. [...] Housed in indestructible lattices of silicon, and no longer constrained in the span of its years by the life and death cycle of a biological organism, such a kind of life could live forever.” nach Jastrow in Lavery; Departure of the Body Snatchers; S. 391, 392 in Bruce Mazlish; The Forth Discontinuity - The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines; Yale University Press, New Haven/London 1993, s220,221)