Humanity's end [electronic resource] : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.
By: Agar, Nicholas.
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Series: Life and mind. Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: viii, 219 p.Subject(s): Human evolution -- Effect of technological innovations on | Technological innovations -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.