"It is possible that you have the right ...

To be honest, I see the situation as follows:

United States: They see robots as some slaves (prejudices?) And are interested to build *slaves*. For example, autonomous combat planes, which have a master confirming mission. Above Iraq, now flying American robot planes, who choose the *target* but the target is *confirmed* by a remote man.

Japan: They are interested in civil way of Robotics, they will build the robot companions. Soon, in Japan you can buy a Robo-Girl companion. :P

Russia: They are interested to build cybernetic soldiers, to take decisions themselves and to be effective weapons on the front. Here will appear the Terminators and aerial Hunter/Killers.

And the Americans will buy Japanese Robo-Girls and they will be hide in tunnels, fearing Russian Terminators and aerial Hunter/Killers... ;) "

"Cameron was made to pass as human in a future society in which people are very much on the look out for fakes. She was built to look, talk, act and think like a human. She was intended to be a substitute, an indistinguishable replacement for Allison.

How modified should a machine become before it is considered a cyborg?"

"Second idiot question:

Imagine a lobotimized Allison, that have in her head a mini nuclear source and a chip port designed for TOK-715 class. She is a completely human body and fully functional, even able to make children to John but, THIS body is driven by a Neural Net Processor (eg Cameron's chip). "She" is human, cyborg or android?"

"I think the pertinent question is .......how modified should a human (or other organism) be before it is considered a cyborg? As the modification is done TO the organism.....the organism IS the starting point.

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"Cameron was made to pass as human in a future society in which people are very much on the look out for fakes. She was built to look, talk, act and think like a human. She was intended to be a substitute, an indistinguishable replacement for Allison.

How modified should a machine become before it is considered a cyborg?"

"A thought experiment: let's replace a single neuron in your brain with an artificial neuron, one that behaves in exactly the same way as a "real" one. Technically you are now a cybernetic organism, but you're still you, right?

Now let's replace another neuron, and another and another until there are no original neurons left. Now are you still you? If not, at which point did you cease to become you?
"

"Let's see.
Cyborg = Cybernetic organism. Part human, part machine.
Organism = A living thing.

Now, how to modify a machine and make it into a living breathing cyborg... add amino acids to protein mix, season with a dash of deoxyribonucleic acid, add couple dozen base-pairs, carry the Y chromosome over there (cause our Cammy's a girl ;), map a few more genes, aaaand...

Now with a tiiiiny miracle and/or a liiiiittle bitty magic, we can turn a "machine" into a real "live" cyborg :)

Next week, we'll turn stone into bread, and then part the Red Sea :)"