Cyborg artist Neil Harbisson spoke at The Post’s 2016 Transformers live journalism event May 18 in Washington, D.C. Learn more here.
“I’m using the Internet as a new sense, not as a tool, and I’m using technology not as a tool either but as a body part, as a sensory extension. I don’t feel I’m using or wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.
“My aim is to use the Internet exclusively to perceive colors from space. We can use the Internet to send our senses to space so instead of physically going to space, we can actually feel that we are there without having to go through the struggle of physically going there.
“I consider myself a transspecies because I’m adding senses and organs that other species have. You can add many, many more senses that other species have and organs that other species have.
“Now cyborg surgeries are being done a bit underground but in the end, bioethical companies will also accept that cyborg surgeries should be allowed for everyone that wants to extend their perception of reality at least to the level of other species.”
—Neil Harbisson
Cyborg artist
Cyborg Foundation