Agar, Nicholas.

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.
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Human evolution--Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

GN281 / .A33 2010eb

303.48/3