The posthuman paradigm shift is closely connected to realizing that we have always been cyborgs. We are cybernetic organisms. The ancient Greek word Κυβερνη′της means helmsman, who is responsible for steering a ship. An organism is a living being, that is, an organized unit with metabolism that can move and reproduce independently. We are steered, controlled, or upgraded organisms. By upgrading us with language, our parents turn us into cyborgs. In education, the process of cyborgization continues. We become more and more complex controlled beings, who live in a permanent process of change, as there is a constant exchange with our environment.

In addition to this, however, we must pay attention not only to the exchange between body and environment, but also to what our bodies are made of. In 2016, researchers from Canada and Israel convincingly demonstrated that our bodies contain numerous nonhuman cells, as in, bacteria and unicellular...

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