Justin Philip
March 14, 2021
MTEC2120
Cyborg Manifesto
In Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, she talks about cybernetic organisms and their purpose in a human-centered world. In one paragraph, she relates the human-machine concept by explaining how humans and animals are alike. “Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes between life and social science.” I agree with this statement by Donna because both humans and animals are “objects of knowledge” that store information in memory and are able recall them at a later date. Dogs, for example, know when its owner is about to open the door and run to the door before the door is open. The human owner knows this, senses hunger in the dog and feeds it accordingly. “Teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse” is another quote from Donna that caught my eye. I could see her point of children being brainwashed learning about Christianity because they might believe everything they hear at such a young age and transition into adulthood based on this “lie”. I do however believe that as long as children are not forced into learning creationism, they should be allowed to if they choose to want to learn about it.
