This is the core of the concept, but the game is dealing with
cybernetics specifically -- the merging of
body and mind with machine. It's certainly arguable that cybernetics are a form of prosthesis, but to remain accurate, the argument would be best served by using the most accurate language available. Cybernetics are prosthetics -- but not all prosthetics are cybernetics. Hence:
cybernetics is what's specifically in question when dealing with the concept of "cyberpsychosis".
Also, trying to validate an entire argument semantically by ignoring more accurate and available terminology is 100% pointless. Inaccuracy is inaccuracy. We want to fix those issues if identified, not try to qualify them through further loosey-goosey semantic reasoning. In the end...it's our arguments that will suffer for it.
The credo of Cyberpunk 2020 (which this game is most certainly emulating) is "STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE". How does that sound to you? Does it sound like it perhaps indicates some superficiality?
Absolutely! The whole concept of Cyberpunk / 2020 / 2077 is
dystopian. The body, rather than being viewed a sanctum (as modern society does) is now viewed as profanum. Natural humanity is a weakness: weakness in strength, weakness in mind, weakness in ability. In order to survive and thrive in CP2077's world, Pondsmith introduced the concept of
Attitude is Everything.
Translation: "There's no more point to any of it. Humanity? It's all gone. It's all destroyed. There's nothing left but dregs and scraps. So...go out in
style!"
^ This forms the omnipresent backdrop to "the dark future". It also introduces some of the main themes: the worth of human life, the price of success, the world we leave behind. And of course, cyberpsychosis. It's the, shall we say, culmination of what cyberware is. What replacing humanity means. A warning that we've already gone too far...or have we? It's directly connected to the sheer amount of augmentation a human undergoes...but women are more resistant to it. Interesting, because the one, critical thing that a woman can do that a man cannot do is
create new life. Nature is struggling to gasp for air under the weight of a world largely replaced by machines. And it's apparently losing.
And this theme culminates in CP2077 with the whole concept of engram tech. An entire consciousness...recreated entirely with technology. Not an "AI"...but the cybernetic replacement of the very
soul. In a way...is there anyone more "cyberpsycho" in the game than V? His very mind has been replaced with a mass-murderer and terrorist that he manages to "find a balance" with, until it finally and inevitably consumes his psyche, creating a new, single mind that exists solely as technology...using the physical body as nothing more than a vessel.
Is that cool? Well, that's up to everyone's individual tastes. (Personally, I love this stuff!)