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Author Agar, Nicholas.

Title Humanity's end [electronic resource] : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

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Description viii, 219 p.
Series Life and mind
Life and mind.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Contents What is radical enhancement? -- Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? -- The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Human evolution -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262014625 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262014629 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262289122 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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