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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners fans are debating whether cyberpsychosis — the show's chrome-induced madness — could ever map onto real human psychology.

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  • A fan theory with 727K views argues cyberpsychosis, the cybernetic overload that drives Edgerunners characters to violence, has no real-world psychological equivalent.
  • The show frames body augmentation as literally eroding humanity — a premise the theory challenges by asking what real psychology says about identity and self-modification.
  • The debate hinges on whether technology genuinely changes who we are, or whether the show's 'chrome madness' is pure sci-fi metaphor with no grounding in actual behavior.