We Are Artifacts - Part Two - Of What We Have Become

In The Book, The Taboo Against Knowing Who Youthat patients will be able to regenerate their own
Are, Alan Watts has suggested that we humans mayhearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys.
become nothing more than replicas. Replicas made ofDesmond Morris in his The Human Zoo has suggested
plastic and steel, electrodes, and computer chips.we have become captive animals and have become
Nearly every organ of the human body can beso by our own volition. Such captivity results in the loss
replaced: heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, limbs, even theof privacy, of freedom, restriction on travel, and
human face. Can a brain transplant be far behind?income. Cell phones can be used to track an individual,
Cloning of animals has been successful. How longGPS systems can be used to locate a person, new
before a human being is cloned? It doesn't end there.scanning devices can see through one's clothing. Such
Robert Edwards, the British pioneer in test-tube babies,a captivity creates new psychological issues.
has indicated that it will not be too far into the future