why we should reject radical enhancement Agar, Nicholas creator text mau Cambridge, Mass MIT Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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viii, 219 p. ; 24 cm. 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 specialized Nicholas Agar "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index Human evolution Effect of technological innovations on Technological innovations Social aspects 9780262014625 (hbk.) UMP 140410 20251125100025.0 vtls000077537