cochlear

So, people with prosthetics or cochlear implants would be cyborgs, but simply augmenting your brain wouldn't count.

Deep brain stimulators and cochlear implants spring immediately to mind, and there are likely many other examples.

The cochlear implant debate is a bit more nuanced than that, and it is centered around children.

Yeah - the brain replacement stuff is already happening in a very minor way with cochlear implants and the like.

Rush Limbaugh famously abused oxycontin and that's likely why he had to get cochlear implants.

In this season of Survivor, there is this deaf woman who wears a Cochlear implant.

What arguments apply in the case of a cochlear implant that do not apply here?

There is open aggressive opposition to cochlear implants, because they are seen as robbing deaf children of exposure to 'deaf culture'.

The choice of whether to get a Cochlear implant should be in the hands of the individual, not the hearing community.

Hearing aids and Cochlear Implants are some very fascinating tech, and very well made.

Hearing damage isn't just loss of sensitivity—apparently it can alter the shape of cochlear filters' response too, changing the way masking works.

Signal from eardrum, not cochlear hair cells (...maybe whiskers too.) Air (N2) as elastic.

Even worse, both DBS and cochlear implants have relatively short loop-latencies between the physician "turning the knob" and observing the effect (seconds).

The ear seems to have a built in amplifier using positive feedback - the "cochlear amplifier is the outer hair cell which increases the amplitude and frequency selectivity of sound vibrations using electromechanical feedback."(Wikipedia).

So while I think the cochlear hearing loss issue is no doubt more complicated than just “take magnesium,” given that I regenerated my lung tissue and no longer have a hole in my left lung and magnesium deficiency promotes acidosis because it is an alkaline mineral…etc…etc..etc..