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‘Meeting a real-life cyborg was gobsmacking’ says film director

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Neil Harbisson , a self-declared "cyborg artist" is the first officially recognised 'cyborg' He had surgery in 2004 to attach an antenna to the back of his head.

The antennae transforms light waves into sounds and allows him to hear colours through bone of his skull.

He has received death threats from people who object to how he has modified his body.

But film director Carey Born wants to get people thinking about the safety of body augmentation.

BBC News presenter Stephen Sackur challenged Harbisson during an interview at Swiss debating conference, the St Gallen Symposium .

Three years earlier , Sackur highlighted possible ethical concerns about body augmentation.

But Harbison said his not-for-profit Cyborg Foundation tries to make such augmentations as available as possible’ Cambridge University augmentation designer Dani Clode says she and colleagues are still working out if augmentation is "a good thing".

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