Religion and the technological future : an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism /: an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen.
• Authors: Mercer, Calvin R; Trothen, Tracy J (Tracy Joan), 1963-
• Contents: PART 1—SETTING THE SCENE 1. Introduction 2. Existing and Possible Technologies: How We Biohack 3. Transhumanism, the Posthuman, and the Religions: Exploring Basic Concepts 4. Radical Human Enhancement and Ethics: Questions We Must Ask PART 2—FIVE CATEGORIES OF ENHANCEMENTS 5. Superlongevity and Other Physical Enhancements 6. Cognitive Enhancement and Moral Bioenhancement: Becoming Smarter and More Moral 7. Affective Enhancement and Spiritual Enhancement: Feeling Happier and More Spiritual PART 3—SPECIAL TOPICS: GOING BEYOND THE EDGE 8. Cryonics: Buried, Burned, or … Frozen 9. Mind Uploading: Cyber Beings and Digital Immortality 10. Superintelligence: Bringing on the SingularityPART 4—CONCLUSION 11. Religion 2.0 and the Enhanced Technological Future.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 201.66; Technology -- Religious aspects; Artificial intelligence -- Religious aspects; Transhumanism; Bioethics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030623593
• Related ISBNs: 9783030623586
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