Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea? (eBook) von Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Part I: Philosophical Aspects.- Aspects of Mind Uploading.- Transhumanism as a Derailed Anthropology.- Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology.- Senseless Transhumanism.- Elements of a Posthuman Philosophy of Art.- Part II: Military Aspects.- Transcending Natural Limitations: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Transhumanist Temptation.- When CRISPR Meets Fantasy: Transhumanism and the Military in the Age of Gene Editing.- War in Times of Beyond Man: Reflections on a Grand Contemporary Topic.- Part III: Technological Aspects.- The Singularity Hoax: Why Computers Will Never Be More Intelligent than Humans.- Ethical Machine Safety Test.- Action and Ascription: On Misleading Metaphors in the Debate About Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism.- Part IV: Sociological Aspects.- Transhumanism and/as Whiteness.- Promethean Shame Revisited: A Praxio-onto-epistemological Analysis of Cyber Futures.- Where from and Where to Trans- and Post-humanistic Phantasms: Antichrist,Headbirth and the Feminist Cyborg.- Co-creation in Trans-human Realities: Setting the Stage for Transformative Learning.

This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.