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Foreword; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection ; Section 1: "Common Ground" Between Transhumanism and Religions; Section 2: Desires and Values; Section 3: Moral Bioenhancement; Section 4: Longing for Immortality: Meanings of Death; Part II "Common Ground" between Transhumanism and Religions; Chapter 2 In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy ; The Idea of Extropy: Transhumanism's Highest Good
A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious PhilosophyThe Role of Meaning in Social Systems; The Form and Context of Religious Meaning; Extropy and Technology: The Form and Context of Transhumanist Meaning; Conclusion: Extropy Is Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy; Chapter 3 Christian Transhumanism ; The Origins of Christian Transhumanism; Three Central Claims of Christian Transhumanism; Individual Enhancement; Individual Immortality; Transformation of the Cosmos; A Christian Transhumanist Critique of Secular Transhumanism; Chapter 4 Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism
Tower of BabelCryonics; Mind Uploading; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement ; The Techno-Apocalyptic Genre; Techno-Apocalyptic Genre in Context; GRIN Technology and Apocalypticism; Selected Authors in the Genre; Spiritual Warfare and Technological Demons; The Nephilim; The Religious and Political Agenda of the Antichrist; The Totalitarian Goal of the Technological Antichrist; Techno-Apocalypticism in Contemporary Context; Conspiracy and Paranoia as Eschatological Impetus
Chapter 6 A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence Mind Uploading: The Centrality of Physicality; Mind Uploading: Personal Identity or Survival; Whole Brain Emulation, Superintelligence, and "AI-Theology"; Concluding Summary; Part III Desires and Values; Chapter 7 Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring ; Chapter 8 What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire in Transhumanist Visions ; The Perennial Quest for Happiness; The Problematic Nature of Desire; Desire in the Modern Western Approach
Desire in Transhumanist ApproachesEvaluating the Western/Transhumanist Approach to Happiness; Desire; The Neuroscience of Desire; Desire in the Modern World; Consumerism; Buddhism, Desire, and Happiness; Desire as Symptom of the Empty Self; Empirical Support for the Buddhist Perspective; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation ; Religion, Technology, and the Ecocrisis; Roman Catholic Ecotheology: Subduing, Ruling, Serving; Transhumanism and Technogaianism: Enhancing, Restoring, Saving; Abandoning or Outgrowing the Earth?
A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism's Religious PhilosophyThe Role of Meaning in Social Systems; The Form and Context of Religious Meaning; Extropy and Technology: The Form and Context of Transhumanist Meaning; Conclusion: Extropy Is Transhumanism's Religious Philosophy; Chapter 3 Christian Transhumanism ; The Origins of Christian Transhumanism; Three Central Claims of Christian Transhumanism; Individual Enhancement; Individual Immortality; Transformation of the Cosmos; A Christian Transhumanist Critique of Secular Transhumanism; Chapter 4 Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism
Tower of BabelCryonics; Mind Uploading; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement ; The Techno-Apocalyptic Genre; Techno-Apocalyptic Genre in Context; GRIN Technology and Apocalypticism; Selected Authors in the Genre; Spiritual Warfare and Technological Demons; The Nephilim; The Religious and Political Agenda of the Antichrist; The Totalitarian Goal of the Technological Antichrist; Techno-Apocalypticism in Contemporary Context; Conspiracy and Paranoia as Eschatological Impetus
Chapter 6 A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence Mind Uploading: The Centrality of Physicality; Mind Uploading: Personal Identity or Survival; Whole Brain Emulation, Superintelligence, and "AI-Theology"; Concluding Summary; Part III Desires and Values; Chapter 7 Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring ; Chapter 8 What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire in Transhumanist Visions ; The Perennial Quest for Happiness; The Problematic Nature of Desire; Desire in the Modern Western Approach
Desire in Transhumanist ApproachesEvaluating the Western/Transhumanist Approach to Happiness; Desire; The Neuroscience of Desire; Desire in the Modern World; Consumerism; Buddhism, Desire, and Happiness; Desire as Symptom of the Empty Self; Empirical Support for the Buddhist Perspective; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation ; Religion, Technology, and the Ecocrisis; Roman Catholic Ecotheology: Subduing, Ruling, Serving; Transhumanism and Technogaianism: Enhancing, Restoring, Saving; Abandoning or Outgrowing the Earth?