Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2010.
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| 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.