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Format: 1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition: 1st, New ed.

ISBN: 9783653018240

Series Statement: Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus 3

Content: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, inter-religious, and critical engagement with transhumanism as a cultural phenomenon, an ideology, and a philosophy. Situating transhumanism in its proper historical context, the essays reflect on transhumanism from the perspectives of several world religions, ponder the feasibility of regulating human enhancement, tease out the philosophical implications of transhumanism, explore the interplay between technology and culture, and expose the scientific limits of transhumanism. Written by scholars of religious studies, philosophy, history, psychology, neuroscience, immunology, engineering, science/technology studies, and law, the volume encourages readers to examine transhumanism seriously and critically because of its ramifications for the future of humanity.

Content: «Overall, Building Better Humans is a welcome contribution to the transdisciplinary debates over transhumanism [...].» (Devan Stahl, Nanoethics 2017)

Note: Contents: Michael M. Crow: Science, Technology, and Democracy – Quentin Wheeler: Recombinant Innovation Creative Hybrid Zones in the Adaptive University – Hava Tirosh-Samuelson/Kenneth L. Mossman: New Perspectives on Transhumanism – Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Science and the Betterment of Humanity: Three British Prophets of Transhumanism – Linell E. Cady: Religion and the Technowonderland of Transhumanism – Norbert Samuelson/Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Jewish Perspectives on Transhumanism – Farzad Mahootian: Ideals of Human Perfection: A Comparison of Sufism and Transhumanism – Eugene Clay: Transhumanism and the Orthodox Christian Tradition – Steven M. Wasserstrom: «The True Dreams of Mankind». Mircea Eliade’s Transhumanist Fiction and the History of Religions – Brian Gratton: What is Race? Transhumanism and the Evolutionary Sciences – Kenneth L. Mossman: In Sickness and in Health: The (Fuzzy) Boundary between «Therapy» and «Enhancement» – Gary E. Marchant/Alexandra López: The (In)Feasibility of Regulating Enhancement – Steven A. Hoffman: Transhumanist Materialism: A Critique from Immunoneuropsychology – Craig T. Nagoshi/Julie L. Nagoshi: Being Human versus Being Transhuman: The Mind-Body Problem and Lived Experience – Michael J. White: Prenatal Human Enhancement and Issues of Responsibility – Walter Glannon: Neuroscience’s Threat to Free Will – Barry G. Ritchie: The (Un)Likelihood of a High-Tech Path to Immortality – Daniel Barben: Converging Technologies, Transhumanism, and Future Society – Joan L. McGregor: Transhumanism and Obligations to Future Generations – Jerry Coursen: Against Species Extinction Transhumanism and Contemporary Technological Culture – Braden Allenby: Technology and Transhumanism: Unpredictability, Radical Contingency, and Accelerating Change – William J. Grassie: Is Transhumanism Scientifically Plausible? Posthuman Predictions and the Human Predicament.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783631635131

Language: English

DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-01824-0

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Format: 1 online resource (289 p.)

ISBN: 0-19-933036-0 , 0-19-933035-2

Content: Living systems exhibit a fundamental contradiction: they are highly stable and reliable, yet they have the capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions. This paradoxical behavior arises from the complexity of life--a high degree of order and cooperation that emerges from relatively simple interactions among cellular components. The Complexity Paradox proposes inventive, interdisciplinary approaches to maintaining health and managing and preventing disease by considering the totality of human biology, from the cellular level on up to entire populations of individuals. From the perspec

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; The Complexity Paradox; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; 1 The Complexity Paradox; WHAT IS LIFE?; Information Storage and Retrieval; Complex Structure and Organization; Energy Use and Metabolism; Responsiveness to Changes in the Environment; Capacity for Growth and Development; REDEFINING LIFE; A ROADMAP TO THE BOOK; 2 Laws to Live By; NATURE HAS NO CHOICES; THE MOTHER OF ALL LAWS; LAWS ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT AND DO NOT PREDICT EVERYTHING; LAWS OF PHYSICS AND REDUCTIONISM; DETERMINISTIC LAWS AND LIFE; 3 Forces of Nature; MASS TRANSIT , THE ELECTRIC SLIDEDRIVING FORCES; ALL PUMPED UP; MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU; 4 Biological Complexity; SYSTEM CONDITIONS AND STATES; COMPLEXITY MADE SIMPLE; Complex Biological Systems Have Many Components That Interact Nonlinearly and Are Interdependent; Complex Systems Behave Unpredictably; Complex Systems Show Fractal Geometry and Physiology; Complex Systems Exhibit Emergent Properties; COMPLEXITY IN ACTION; COMPLEXITY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE; 5 A Free and Independent Life; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING STABLE; FEEDBACK CONTROL; ACID-BASE BUFFERS; RHYTHMS OF LIFE; MORE THAN ENOUGH; RANDOM WALKS , THE WISDOM OF NATURE6 Altered States; SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT; TOO MANY THINGS CAN GO WRONG; SEARCH AND DESTROY; IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER; MEDICINE WITHOUT BORDERS; BEYOND THERAPY; NOTHING IS SIMPLE; 7 The Trinity; THREE DISEASES; Obesity; Diabetes; CAUSES AND RISKS; WHERE'S WALDO?; PUT THE GUN DOWN; 8 The Mother of All Diseases; A BRIEF CANCER OVERVIEW; A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE; Disease Progression Is Unpredictable; Complexity Is Evident at Multiple Scales; Complex Systems Require Energy; The Root Causes of Disease Are Masked by Complexity; Complexity Offers Multiple Ways to Attack Disease , OTHER PERSPECTIVESCancer Development Is a Multistage Process; Cancer Is an Evolutionary and Ecological Process; Cancer Is a Systems Biology Problem; A CONSOLIDATED VIEW; SEARCH AND DESTROY; COMPLEXITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH; Screening; Prevention; 9 Brain Drain; UNIQUE COMPLEXITY; The Brain as an Information Processor; Brain States and Mental States; Modularity and Plasticity; Mind and Body; ROAD TO OBLIVION; 10 Desperately Seeking Methuselah; SEEDS OF AGING; WORN-OUT BODIES; Immune System Failure; Slowed Metabolism; CHEATING DEATH; BUILDING BETTER HUMANS?; Better Housekeeping; Radical Solutions , Inflammatory ControlMaking Sense of Aging; AGING AS COMPLEXITY; 11 Emergence Medicine; EMERGENCE; DIMENSIONS OF COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTION VERSUS FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICS; BEYOND COMPREHENSION?; A UNIFIED THEORY OF BIOLOGY; PREDICTIONS; FINAL THOUGHTS; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-06173-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-19-933034-4

Language: English