hyporational comments on Rationality Quotes December 2013

hyporational 23 Dec 2013 18:45 UTC
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Maintenance schedule and expense, for example. Availability of spare parts. An interesting question is who has control over firmware.

I wonder if we’ll get a new “dysmorphic disorder” in DSM-VII for “excessive” prosthetic modding spiraling out of control ;)

(for a reference point, in the US you do not own (in the property sense) your own body).

I’m not sure I understand you. Isn’t borrowing someone’s prosthetic leg without permission called stealing?
- Lumifer 23 Dec 2013 18:59 UTC
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  I’m not sure I understand you.
  
  I mean it literally. Under US law you do not have property rights in your own body, organs, or biological information.
  
  With prosthetics it’s an interesting dilemma. If you argue it’s part of your body you don’t own it. And if you argue it’s just a piece of hardware that you happen to own, well, it might be seized as part of bankruptcy proceedings, for example.