What Would You Call a Person Who's Consciousness is Transported into a Robotic Body?
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This is Sci-Fi obviously, but what would you call somebody that was once human but now inhabits a Mechanical body? This could be either through artificial transfer or implanting the brain into a robot (I imagine the terms would be different depending on the method).
Would it be Android, Cyborg, Bionic?
Droid might be most accurate:
[QUOTE]droid
droid/
noun
(in science fiction) a robot.
a person regarded as lifeless or mechanical.
"she will probably leave you for a sales droid"[/QUOTE]
Isn't a Droid something more like C-3P0? A robot that's designed to interact with humans?
This is a normal person who had to get a new body for whatever reason.
[QUOTE=Destroyox;50892398]Isn't a Droid something more like C-3P0? A robot that's designed to interact with humans?
This is a normal person who had to get a new body for whatever reason.[/QUOTE]
The definition covers a mechanical person but you could also call him a transhumanist
Cyborg would make most sense to me.
Cyborg would be the closest.
Cyborg would be the closest I think.
Not so sure about cyborg, since that implies at least some "meat".
I'd probably say "ascendant", being that the platform is host to an intellect that had ascended from the meat of squishy mortality to the durability and resilience of alloy and polymer. Maybe "android ascendant", assuming that the platform falls under the category of android, but that's a little too long, so ascendant is probably the better choice.
not sure if anyone else has said it but the word you're looking for is probably "cyborg"
I don't know if cyborg would be the proper term since all it really is is a brain suspended inside a robot body. Everything else is purely mechanical.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;50892651]I don't know if cyborg would be the proper term since all it really is is a brain suspended inside a robot body. Everything else is purely mechanical.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't Bionic fit for that one?
Robutt
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;50892651]I don't know if cyborg would be the proper term since all it really is is a brain suspended inside a robot body. Everything else is purely mechanical.[/QUOTE]
Cyborg still covers that as the brain is organic. It'd be an extreme case, but cyborg would still fit best. If it's mechanical body that houses a human mind in a way that doesn't include the brain, it'd be a bit harder, but I think droid or somethig akin to it could work.
Maybe what ironman said, coming up with your own word, if you're writing sci-fi, could work the best.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;50892406]The definition covers a mechanical person but you could also call him a transhumanist[/QUOTE]
Every single robot in the Star Wars universe is refereed to as a droid. I don't think R2-D2 was meant to literally have Kenny Baker's brain.
a robotic human
Might refer to them as cyberized. More adjective than noun.
Ghostshell.
Robotman
Million dollar man/lady
A cyborg is the only term we have that fits such a development, barring somebody coining a new one.
Simulation of the now dead person.
Transborg?
If there's no brain, maybe an "uploaded"
If there is a brain, cyborg
Robobrains :-)
Humanoid?
Synth
Shell, frame, or mech.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;50894246]Ghostshell.[/QUOTE]
Going with this.
The 'ghost' of a human has taken up another form - love it.
Grey Fox and Raiden are considered cyborgs so I'll say cyborg
they would be Roboticized
[video=youtube;Z24qDRoys3g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z24qDRoys3g[/video]
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