Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.
Material type:
TextSeries: Life and mindPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: viii, 219 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262014629
- 9780262014625
- 303.483 22
- GN281 .A33 2010
Contents:
1. What is radical enhancement? -- 2. Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- 3. The technologist: Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- 4. Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- 5. The therapist: Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- 6. Who wants to live forever? -- 7. The philosopher: Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- 8. The sociologist: James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- 9. A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.
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"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. What is radical enhancement? -- 2. Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- 3. The technologist: Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- 4. Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- 5. The therapist: Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- 6. Who wants to live forever? -- 7. The philosopher: Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- 8. The sociologist: James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- 9. A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.
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