The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.