- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
From my knowledge, they were enhancing the Spartan's nerves not adding mechanical objects to their bodies. As I already said Rip Saw, in an earlier post, with the exception of the nearal implant, the Spartans are human. If you are saying the Spartans are cybernetic organisms because of their neural implants, then all UNSC personel is a cyborg. Sorry, but I just read and typed all of that directly from the book, and I dont see any proof that from the experiments, augmentations, and enhancements conducted on the Spartans, that there is any reason to believe they are not human. They feel pain when injured, bleed when wounded, they smile when happy and have a ton of other emotions which is evident when John saw is fellow Spartans get boosted of into space after dying from the augmentation, he was upset. Cyborgs have no emotions, they are machines.