Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar.
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| Superior document: | Life and mind |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Life and mind.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 219 p. |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
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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.