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The progress of bionic and roboc biotechnology for both therapeuc and enhancement goals forces us to
invesgate the intersecon of healthcare, ethics, and philosophy in the context of human augmentaon.
As the cyborg is progressively becoming a concrete possibility, new bioethical quesons about the growing
integraon of technology into the human body are rising.
Drawing aenon to the most recent breakthroughs, such as a fully implantable bionic skin with wireless
sensory capabilies, the aim is not only to explore the eecve potenal impact on individuals' lives,
addressing issues of health monitoring, comfort, and extended capabilies but also to address the concept
of embodiment: both promises and threats of an increased level of integraon and acceptance of
biotechnological enhancement must be highlighted.
Since the pursuit of this progress is not merely “to wear” these advancements but to seamlessly integrate
them, blurring the disncon between the biological body and the augmented one, both sciensts and
humanists need to focus on the need for a deeper understanding of the human brain's capacity to adapt to
such enhancements.
Thus, the speculaon on the future trajectory of human-robot fusion helps to spot the most compelling
quesons regarding the most profound changes in the human experience of health and wellness.
Some of these have yet to be formulated, even though they represent the most concrete and "human"
challenge that cybernec humans will present to us: how will the relaonship of care vary in the presence
of an increasingly bionic body? Which parts of our bodies will sll be able to feel pain? Will we sll have an
aging body? Or will we rather speak of a body that is progressively malfunconing because it is poorly
designed? Will physicians become more and more like precision mechanics? How will the language of
health, care and well-being change?