Humanity’s end : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar
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TextSeries: Life and mindPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: viii, 219 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780262014625 (hbk.)
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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