This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that Man was created in the image of God, transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures, further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenments notion of human perfectibility.
It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars.
While one author contends that there is no Artificial Intelligence as all intelligence is artificial, two other authors debate about truth and reason in todays world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.
| Introduction: Humanism and Its Discontents---The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism |
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Part I Humanism on the Wane |
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Strong Artificial Intelligence and Theological Anthropology: One Problem, Two Solutions |
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Part II Complement and Supplements |
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On Prosthetic Existence: What Differentiates Deconstruction from Transhumanism and Posthumanism |
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Part III Boundaries and Frontiers |
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Discourse Between Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Paul Jorion on Nietzsche, Fascism and Moving Beyond Humanism: From Friedrich Nietzsche to Stefan Sorgner---The Short Path Leading from Superhumanism to Metahumanism |
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Dignity, Personhood, and the Sacred |
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Enlightenment, Truths, and the Sciences |
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When Skin and Technology Intertwine |
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Part IV The Enlightenment Recovered |
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On Max More's Extropianism |
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Transhumanism and Advanced Capitalism: Elitist Logics and Dangerous Implications |
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Part V The Cunning of Reason |
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Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Superhumanism and Metahumanism from an Adaptive Standpoint |
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Ethics and Complexity: Why Standard Ethical Frameworks Cannot Cope with Socio-Technological Change |
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Paul Jorion, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, France. He trained as an anthropologist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. He taught at Cambridge University, UK, was a UCI Regents Lecturer and a member of the UCLA, USA, Human Complex Systems. He played a pioneering role in AI (British Telecoms Connex project) and in developing financial algorithms.
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