Cognitive Technologies

The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?

By: Hans-Jorg Kreowski (Editor), Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 December 2021

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Part I: Philosophical Aspects.- Aspects of Mind Uploading.- Transhumanism as a Derailed Anthropology.- Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology.- Senseless Transhumanism.- Elements of a Posthuman Philosophy of Art.- Part II: Military Aspects.- Transcending Natural Limitations: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Transhumanist Temptation.- When CRISPR Meets Fantasy: Transhumanism and the Military in the Age of Gene Editing.- War in Times of "Beyond Man": Reflections on a "Grand" Contemporary Topic.- Part III: Technological Aspects.- The Singularity Hoax: Why Computers Will Never Be More Intelligent than Humans.- Ethical Machine Safety Test.- 'Action' and Ascription: On Misleading Metaphors in the Debate About Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism.- Part IV: Sociological Aspects.- Transhumanism and/as Whiteness.- Promethean Shame Revisited: A Praxio-onto-epistemological Analysis of Cyber Futures.- Where from and Where to - Trans- and Post-humanistic Phantasms: Antichrist, Headbirth and the Feminist Cyborg.- Co-creation in Trans-human Realities: Setting the Stage for Transformative Learning.

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