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Advancing the Human Self; Do Technologies Make Us "Posthuman"?

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Peter Lang D
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

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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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  • Title

    Advancing the Human Self; Do Technologies Make Us "Posthuman"?

  • Author

    Ewa Nowak

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang D

  • Published

    June 2020

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9783631806784

  • ISBN-10

    3631806787

  • Eden Code

    5679739

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