Humanity's end why we should reject radical enhancement / [electronic resource] :
Nicholas Agar.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- viii, 219 p.
- Life and mind .
"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.
Human evolution--Effect of technological innovations on. Technological innovations--Social aspects.