Can I read The Posthuman Condition : Consciousness Beyond the Brain on EtoBox?

The Posthuman Condition : Consciousness Beyond the Brain by Robert Pepperell; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Posthuman Condition : Consciousness Beyond the Brain about?

"Where humanists saw themselves as distinct beings in an antagonistic relationship with their surroundings, posthumans regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world." Synthetic creativity, organic computers, genetic modification, intelligent machines--such ideas are deeply challenging to many of our traditional assumptions about human uniqueness and superiority. But, ironically, it is our very capacity for technological invention that has secured us so dominant a position in the world which may lead ultimately to (as some have put it) 'The End of Man'. If we are really capable of creating entities that exceed our own skills and intellect then the consequences for humanity are almost inconceivable. Nevertheless, we must now face up to the possibility that attributes like intelligence and consciousness may be synthesised in non-human entities--perhaps within our lifetime. Would such entities have human-like emotions; would they have a sense of their own being? The Posthuman Condition argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained. New theor

Who reads The Posthuman Condition : Consciousness Beyond the Brain?

Author

Robert Pepperell; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Intellect Books Ltd

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280476587

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Body Mind & Spirit, Science, Technology