We have always been cyborgs : digital data, gene technologies, and an ethics of transhumanism
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- Titel
- We have always been cyborgs digital data, gene technologies, and an ethics of transhumanism
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- veröffentlicht
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2022
- Erscheint auch als
- Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz, 1973 - , We have always been cyborgs, Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022, vii, 216 Seiten
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- Zusammenfassung
- This visionary new book explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalisation, gene technologies and ethics. It examines the history and meaning of transhumanism, offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia.
Front Cover -- Testimonials page -- We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Transhumanism: In a Nutshell -- 1.1 Philosophical issues -- 1.2 Transhumanism as nihilistic, positive pessimism -- 1.2.1 Pessimism -- 1.2.2 Positivity -- 1.2.3 Nihilism -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2 On a Silicon-based Transhumanism -- 2.1 Transhumanism without mind uploading and immortality -- 2.1.1 Elon Musk and the simulation argument -- 2.1.2 Implicit assumptions of the simulation argument -- 2.1.3 Immortality now -- 2.1.4 Conclusion -- 2.2 A democratic usage of our digital data as pragmatic must-have? -- 2.2.1 We have always been cyborgs6 -- 2.2.2 Personal interests in data collection9 -- 2.2.3 Ageing as disease11 -- 2.2.4 Political interests in data collection -- 2.2.5 Internet panopticon20 -- 2.2.6 A European social credit system as a pragmatic necessity -- 2.2.7 An as-good-as-it-gets ethic of reducing violence -- 2.2.8 Truthfulness, mindfulness, and impulse control as means to strengthen autonomy -- 2.2.9 Conclusion -- 2.2.10 Final thoughts related to the COVID-19 pandemic -- 2.2.11 Glocalization and the war for digital data34 -- 3 On a Carbon-based Transhumanism -- 3.1 From Nietzsche's overhuman to the posthuman of transhumanism -- 3.1.1 Reflections on this challenge -- 3.1.2 Implications for contemporary discourses -- 3.1.3 Conclusion -- 3.2 Moral (bio)enhancement -- 3.2.1 Moral bioenhancement by means of citalopram -- 3.2.2 Moral (bio)enhancement as legal obligation -- 3.2.3 Moral (bio)enhancement as free choice -- 3.2.4 Further moral bioenhancement options -- 3.2.5 The relationship between cognitive and moral development -- 3.2.6 Conclusion -- 3.3 Gene modification. - Umfang
- 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 216 Seiten)
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Schlagworte
- BK-Notation
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54.72 Künstliche Intelligenz
42.13 Molekularbiologie - DDC-Notation
- 144
- ISBN
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9781529219234
9781529219227