An ambitious scientist who is suffering from terminal motor neuron disease has defied the doctors who have given him until this year to live and started walking down the path to becoming the world’s first cyborg.
So far, Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan, who is hoping to replace all of his organs with robotic alternatives, has already traded his voicebox for his recorded voice and said goodbye to food by installing a feeding tube, a catheter, and a colostomy bag in order to get rid of the need to eat and excrete.
In addition, the half-human half-robot created a unique wheelchair that allows him not only to sit but also to stand up and lie down when needed.
Since his facial muscles are quickly leaving him, Dr. Morgan also created an AI-controlled avatar that resembles his face and will convey his expressions as the disease progresses.
“This is my last post as Peter 1.0. Tomorrow (Thursday October 10) I trade my voice for potentially decades of life as we complete the final medical procedure for my transition to Full Cyborg,” the scientist announced on Twitter.
“I’m not dying, I’m transforming. Oh, how I love science.”
In an interview with Daily Mail, Dr. Morgan has stressed out just how much going full-cyborg means to him.
“I’m about to be turned into Peter 2.0. And when I say ‘Peter 2.0,’ I mean ‘a Cyborg.’ And when I say ‘Cyborg,’ I don’t just mean any old cyborg, you understand, but by far the most advanced human cybernetic organism ever created in 13.8 billion years,” he said.
“Almost everything about me is going to be irreversibly changed – body and brain. It goes without saying that all my physical interaction with the world will become robotic.
“And naturally, my existing five senses are going to be enhanced. But, far more importantly, part of my brain, and all of my external persona, will soon be electronic – totally synthetic.
“From then on, I’ll be part hardware / part wetware, part digital / part analogue. And it won’t stop there; I’ve got more upgrades in progress than Microsoft. Mine isn’t just a version change. It’s a metamorphosis.”
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