Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement /

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Autor Principal: Agar, Nicholas
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Series:Life and mind.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is radical enhancement?
  • Radical enhancement and posthumanity
  • The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns
  • Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet?
  • The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence
  • Who wants to live forever?
  • The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement
  • The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement
  • A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.