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"If the word cyborg—short for 'cybernetic organism'—describes the fusion between a living organism and a piece of technology, then we, like all other life-forms are symborgs, or symbiotic organisms. The authors of a seminal paper on the symbiotic view of life take a clear stance on this point. 'There have never been individuals,' they declare. 'We are all lichens.'"