Does taking medicine or other biochemicals consider us to be a cyborg?

[Bio-Hazard]

I know what cyborg means but someone came to me with the question, "Does taking medicine make us a cyborg?"

 

This made me raise an eye because I didn't know. I know that wearing clothes, glasses, a watch, these things make us cyborgs because they are technological appendages in which we attach to our bodies for things such as protection or increased efficiency.

 

However, don't bio-chemical things such as drugs have such an effect where they can make us like cyborgs by allowing us to resist things such as pain or emotional distress.

 

Don't know if this is the right board, but eh.

[Mokele]

I would say no, except in the cases of permanent artificial body parts, like artificial hearts or pacemakers or mechanical/robotic legs.

 

Mokele

[starbug1]

So war veterans with only one leg are cyborgs?

 

I think that you have to be at least 40% metal and be oiled every 2 weeks.