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Part I Roots and Core Themes |
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1 The Philosophy of Transhumanism |
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2 Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts & Design into the Discussion of Transhumanism |
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3 Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up |
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4 Transhumanist Declaration (2012) |
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54 | (2) |
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5 Morphological Freedom -- Why We Not Just Want It, but Need It |
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56 | (9) |
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Part II Human Enhancement: The Somatic Sphere |
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65 | (46) |
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6 Welcome to the Future of Medicine |
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67 | (6) |
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73 | (10) |
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8 The Hybronaut Affair: A Menage of Art, Technology, and Science |
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83 | (8) |
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91 | (9) |
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100 | (11) |
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Part III Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere |
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111 | (54) |
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11 Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind |
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113 | (15) |
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12 Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity |
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128 | (10) |
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13 Intelligent Information Filters and Enhanced Reality |
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138 | (8) |
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Alexander "Sasha" Chislenko |
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14 Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds |
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146 | (11) |
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157 | (8) |
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Part IV Core Technologies |
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165 | (48) |
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16 Why Freud Was the First Good AI Theorist |
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167 | (10) |
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177 | (5) |
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182 | (14) |
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19 Immortalist Fictions and Strategies |
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196 | (9) |
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20 Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler |
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205 | (8) |
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Part V Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death |
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213 | (28) |
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21 The Curate's Egg of Anti-Anti-Aging Bioethics |
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215 | (5) |
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220 | (7) |
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23 Transhumanism and Personal Identity |
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227 | (7) |
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24 Transcendent Engineering |
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234 | (7) |
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Part VI Enhanced Decision-Making |
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241 | (38) |
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25 Idea Futures: Encouraging an Honest Consensus |
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243 | (15) |
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26 The Proactionary Principle: Optimizing Technological Outcomes |
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258 | (10) |
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27 The Open Society and Its Media |
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268 | (11) |
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Part VII Biopolitics and Policy |
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279 | (82) |
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28 Performance Enhancement and Legal Theory: An Interview with Professor Michael H. Shapiro |
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281 | (10) |
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29 Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital |
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291 | (11) |
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30 The Battle for the Future |
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302 | (15) |
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31 Mind is Deeper Than Matter: Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Freedom of Form |
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317 | (10) |
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327 | (18) |
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33 Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right? |
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345 | (10) |
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34 Freedom by Design: Transhumanist Values and Cognitive Liberty |
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355 | (6) |
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Part VIII Future Trajectories: Singularity |
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361 | (58) |
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35 Technological Singularity |
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365 | (11) |
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36 An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity |
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376 | (19) |
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37 A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept |
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395 | (24) |
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Alexander "Sasha" Chislenko |
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Part IX The World's Most Dangerous Idea |
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38 The Great Transition: Ideas and Anxieties |
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421 | (9) |
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430 | (8) |
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40 Back to Nature II: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century |
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438 | (11) |
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41 A Letter to Mother Nature |
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449 | (2) |
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42 Progress and Relinquishment |
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451 | (3) |
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