Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement /

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Agar, Nicholas
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Reeks:Life and mind.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.