Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism 9783030623593

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Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism
9783030623593

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Calvin Mercer
Tracy J. Trothen

Table of contents :
Part I Setting the Scene

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

Part II Five Categories of Enhancements

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

Part III Special Topics: Going Beyond the Edge

8 Cryonics: Buried, Burned, or … Frozen

9 Mind Uploading: Cyber Beings and Digital Immortality

10 Superintelligence: Bringing on the Singularity

Part IV Conclusion

11 Religion 2.0 and the Enhanced Technological Future

Glossary

References

Index

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