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Religion and the Technological Future = An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism /

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Title/Author:	Religion and the Technological Future/ by Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen.
Reminder of title:	An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism /
Author:	Mercer, Calvin.
other author:	Trothen, Tracy J.
Description:	XVII, 266 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Religion and sociology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3
ISBN:	9783030623593

Religion and the Technological Future = An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism /
Mercer, Calvin.

Religion and the Technological FutureAn Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism /[electronic resource] :by Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen. - 1st ed. 2021. - XVII, 266 p.online resource.

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.

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspectives from monotheistic and karmic religions and applied ethics. These technological breakthroughs are transforming our societies and ourselves fundamentally via genetic modification, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, the merging of computer technology with human biology, extended reality, brain stimulation, and nanotechnology. The book also considers the extreme possibilities of mind uploading, cryonics, and superintelligence. Chapters explore some of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological dimensions of these advances, with bibliographies for further study and questions for discussion. The technological future is here – and it is up to us to decide its moral and religious shape.

ISBN: 9783030623593

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-62359-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Religion and sociology.

LC Class. No.: BL60

Dewey Class. No.: 201.7

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