4 Evolution of Woman Cyborg
4.1 The Intellectual Female Cyborg
In 1961, Anne McCaffrey’s collection of short stories The Ship That Sang
was one of the first human experiences of the 20th century as a logical intellect Cartesian driving a mechanical body. Helva XH-834 is the female brain of a titanium Intergalactic Scout ship implanted in the middle shaft. Their extended
neuronal and audio, visual and sensory abilities are bound to and grafted into the hull of the ship to be the ship, to control the brain and to turn the ship as its natural body will be to complicate the Cartesian logical machine’s stereotypical picture clearly as mind-body dualism; one of Helva’s early tasks is to provide the planet Nekkar with ...
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