Religion and the technological future : an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism /

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Author / Creator:Mercer, Calvin R., author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13088361
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Other authors / contributors:Trothen, Tracy J. (Tracy Joan), 1963- author.
ISBN:9783030623593
3030623599
3030623580
9783030623586
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2021).
Other form:Print version: 3030623580 9783030623586
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3
Table of Contents:
  • 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.