To Come Across a Machine with a Mind for a Phone, and an Automaton for a Body

I keep out of its way, and stay in place; one row down and one across.

The bus just gets on the highway. A "man" sits across from me that has his thumb on his phone. He stares blankly off to the right at the air in front of his face for the longest time

I begin to wonder if he is some sort of mannequin, like those figures in the department store that display clothes

Just now he finally breaks out of his trance. He starts using his phone again...of course now he becomes a virtual statue again boring his gaze down at his little screen without moving any other body part at all.

With subtleness his thumb moves across the screen as if it were a snake caressing the ground with its belly while staring out in front of his face again. Nothing else stirs except for his eyes. It is a really strange thing. Almost like he must conserve so much energy like a robot low on battery life.

A cyborg? Ah yes perhaps he is one. Maybe the phone is the brain, and he is just the body.

That could be something quite novel, correct?

When he gazes out the window, perhaps he is rebooting his motor functions as his brain is affixed within his grasp.