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In Defense of the Human Being
Author | : Thomas Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780192898197 |
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With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves in the image of our machines, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
In Defence of the Human Being
Author | : Thomas Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780192653192 |
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With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
In Defense of Nature
Author | : John Hay |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781609380106 |
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Originally published in 1969, In Defense of Nature is an eloquent and prescient plea on behalf of the natural world. Devoid of sentimentality yet lyrical and deeply moving in its portrayals of our despoliation of nature, Hay’s classic work is now available to a new generation of readers.
Janeway s Immunobiology
Author | : Kenneth Murphy,Paul Travers,Mark Walport,Peter Walter |
Publsiher | : Garland Science |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2010-06-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0815344570 |
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The Janeway's Immunobiology CD-ROM, Immunobiology Interactive, is included with each book, and can be purchased separately. It contains animations and videos with voiceover narration, as well as the figures from the text for presentation purposes.
A Defense of Dignity
Author | : Christopher Robert Kaczor |
Publsiher | : Notre Dame Studies in Medical |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0268033269 |
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A Defense of Dignity argues that all human beings should be treated with respect and considers how this belief should be applied in controversial cases.
Molecular Biology of The Cell
Author | : Bruce Alberts |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cytology |
ISBN | : 0815332181 |
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Embryo
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Author | : Robert P. George,Christopher Tollefsen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Embryonic stem cells |
ISBN | : 0981491146 |
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Draws on current scientific research and moral philosophy to shed new light on the debate over abortion and stem-cell research, and maintains that, from the moment of conception, embryos are entitled to the full protection of the law.
The Case for Animal Rights
Author | : Tom Regan |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520054601 |
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THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.