Religion and the technological future : an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism / Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen.
Mercer, Calvin R., author.; Trothen, Tracy J. (Tracy Joan), 1963- author.
2021
BL265.T4 M47 2021
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Title Religion and the technological future : an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism / Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen.
Author Mercer, Calvin R., author.
ISBN 9783030623593 (electronic bk.)
3030623599 (electronic bk.)
3030623580
9783030623586
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3 doi
Call Number BL265.T4 M47 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 201/.66
Summary We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspectives from monotheistic and karmic religions and applied ethics. These technological breakthroughs are transforming our societies and ourselves fundamentally via genetic modification, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, the merging of computer technology with human biology, extended reality, brain stimulation, and nanotechnology. The book also considers the extreme possibilities of mind uploading, cryonics, and superintelligence. Chapters explore some of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological dimensions of these advances, with bibliographies for further study and questions for discussion. The technological future is here and it is up to us to decide its moral and religious shape.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2021).
Added Author Trothen, Tracy J. (Tracy Joan), 1963- author.
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1. Introduction
2. Existing and Possible Technologies: How We Biohack
3. Transhumanism, the Posthuman, and the Religions: Exploring Basic Concepts
4. Radical Human Enhancement and Ethics: Questions We Must Ask
5. Superlongevity and Other Physical Enhancements
6. Cognitive Enhancement and Moral Bioenhancement: Becoming Smarter and More Moral
7. Affective Enhancement and Spiritual Enhancement: Feeling Happier and More Spiritual
8. Cryonics: Buried, Burned, or Frozen
9. Mind Uploading: Cyber Beings and Digital Immortality
10. Superintelligence: Bringing on the Singularity
11. Religion 2.0 and the Enhanced Technological Future.

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