Advancing the Human Self Do Technologies Make Us "Posthuman"?

• Yazar: Nowak, Ewa (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020
• Seri Bilgileri: DIA-LOGOS 27
• Konular: Ethics & moral philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; "Posthuman"?; Advancing; body image; embodied self; Human; Nowak; organism; pothumanism; self-identity; Technologies; technopoiesis
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened - and this is not through 'psychosurgery' and the brain-computer interface.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (242 p.)

ISBN

b16974
9783631822135
9783631822142
9783631822159
9783631806784

Erişim

Open Access