Thursday, August 25, 2016

Week 3 Bionics

Bionic technology is incredible! A bionic organ or limb, is a device which is man-made and is integrated or implanted into a human in order to restore or increase the natural function. This development in science is incredible when we consider its application for replacing a limb or organ. 
Bionic technology is rapidly developing in the field of biomedical science, so much so that it is becoming common practice. However, this is very interesting to me because the philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine is somewhat at odds with the idea that as parts of our bodies become weekend or ill that we should just replace them. For example in the case of a long term smoker that develops disease of the lungs, Traditional Chinese Medicine would say that the smoker was living out of harmony with life and even with bionic lungs something else would weaken or become diseased. 


With regards to the use of bionic technology in the military- i would say that i disagree fundamentally with the state military in all of their uses- from toilet seats to drones. 

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