Chasing The White Rabbit
Join Sid Shah to understand how new life trajectories were created because of taking risks and going down the rabbit hole. Chasing The White Rabbit is a podcast where successful people speak about the journey and circumstances before they decided to take a major risk and how their world changed. In intimate, one-to-one conversations, find out what the other side of the rabbit hole is truly like. Hear how the guest's new realities have resulted in opportunities unimagined, and how their base fundamentals and assumptions have shifted.
Chasing The White Rabbit
#13 Neil Harbisson and Manel De Aguas: Life as a cyborg and the transpecies movement
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Sid Shah
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Season 1
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Episode 13
In this episode, we meet two people who consider themselves cyborgs. The cultural challenges of being born colorblind led Neil Harbisson on a mission to create a system that would allow him to defy his limitations. Astonishingly, he did it! When he met Manel De Aguas, who designed the two fins attached to his skull which allow him to hear changes in the weather, they decided to set up the Transpecies Society, an association that gives a voice to people with non-human identities. Both describe their additional senses in vivid detail and explain why they, and people like them, seek to alter and improve upon their human capabilities.