Name: Humanity's End: Why we Should Reject Radical Enhancement (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) (en Inglés)
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Author: Nicholas Agar
ISBN: 9780262525176

portada Humanity's End: Why we Should Reject Radical Enhancement (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

A Bradford Book,

Autor

Nicholas Agar

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.1 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780262525176

Humanity's End: Why we Should Reject Radical Enhancement (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) (en Inglés)

Nicholas Agar (Autor) · A Bradford Book, · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Humanity's End: Why we Should Reject Radical Enhancement (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) (en Inglés)"

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities far beyond what is currently possible for human beings. In Humanity's End, Nicholas Agar argues against radical enhancement, describing its destructive consequences. Agar examines the proposals of four prominent radical enhancers: Ray Kurzweil, who argues that technology will enable our escape from human biology; Aubrey de Grey, who calls for anti-aging therapies that will achieve "longevity escape velocity"; Nick Bostrom, who defends the morality and rationality of enhancement; and James Hughes, who envisions a harmonious democracy of the enhanced and the unenhanced. Agar argues that the outcomes of radical enhancement could be darker than the rosy futures described by these thinkers. The most dramatic means of enhancing our cognitive powers could in fact kill us; the radical extension of our life span could eliminate experiences of great value from our lives; and a situation in which some humans are radically enhanced and others are not could lead to tyranny of posthumans over humans.