Advancing the Human Self
eBook - PDF

Advancing the Human Self

Do Technologies Make Us Posthuman?

  1. 242 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Advancing the Human Self

Do Technologies Make Us Posthuman?

About this book

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened – and this is not through 'psychosurgery' and the brain–computer interface.

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783631806784
eBook ISBN
9783631822135
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction. Against the Stream: Searching for a Concept of the Self in Posthumanist Contexts
  5. I. Kinds of the Self
  6. II. The Evolution of Body Concept
  7. III. Body Representationism Between Permanent Loss and Recovery of the Identity
  8. IV. Psychosurgery. The Self As a Chronic Patient
  9. V. Empowering the Agent, Not the Patient. Gadamer, Kępiński, Dąbrowski and Waldenfels vs. Technopoiesis
  10. VI. Artificial Intelligent Devices To Be Our Alter Egos? Facing Humans’ Most Distant Relatives
  11. Summary
  12. Bibliography