The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human FutureMax More, Natasha Vita-More John Wiley & Sons, 5 mars 2013 - 480 pages The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against human enhancement, explore the inevitability of life extension, and consider possible solutions to the growing issues of social and ethical implications and concerns. Edited by the internationally acclaimed founders of the philosophy and social movement of transhumanism, The Transhumanist Reader is an indispensable guide to our current state of knowledge of the quest to expand the frontiers of human nature. |
Table des matières
Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow | |
Transhumanist Declaration 2012 | |
Welcome to the Future of Medicine | |
Life Expansion Media | |
Transhumanism and Personal Identity | |
Transcendent Engineering | |
Idea Futures | |
The Proactionary Principle | |
The Open Society and Its Media | |
Performance Enhancement and Legal TheoQz | |
Justifying Human Enhancement | |
The Battle for the Future | |
The Hybronaut Affair | |
Transavatars | |
Alternative Biologies | |
ReInventing Ourselves | |
Artificial General Intelligence and the Future | |
Intelligent Information Filters and Enhanced Reality | |
Uploading | |
Why Freud Was the First Good Al Theorist | |
Pigs in Cyberspace | |
Nanocomputers | |
Electronic Logic | |
Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler | |
The Curates Egg of AntiAntiAging Bioethics | |
Mind is Deeper Than Matter | |
For Enhancing People | |
Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right? | |
Freedom by Design | |
Technological Singularity | |
An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity | |
A Critical Discussion of Vinges Singularity Concept | |
The Great Transition | |
Trans and Post | |
Back to Nature ll | |
A Letter to Mother Nature | |
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