Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up

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Abstract:: The author defines a posthuman as a human being that has at least one posthuman capacity. He uses three general central capacities - healthspan, cognition, and emotion -separately for most of this essay. In this essay, he advances two main theses. The first is that some possible posthuman modes of being would be very good. The second thesis is that it could be very good for us to become posthuman. Then, this essay concerns three reasons one might have for doubting that it could be good for us...
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Publisher:: John Wiley and Sons
Host title:: The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future
Pages:: 28-53
Publication date:: 2013-03-11
DOI:: 10.1002/9781118555927.ch3
ISBN:: 9781118334294

Keywords:: Commitments

Cognition

Personal identity

Human being

Ways of life

Healthspan

Posthuman

Emotion
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Deposit date:: 2013-12-13

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