Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens

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"Provides an introduction to a vast array of scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings"-- COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT EDITORIAL BOARD CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: TRANS-, POST-, AND EMERGING HUMANS: WHAT DO WE MEAN? BETWEEN PROGRESS AND ARMAGEDDON: THE STAKES OF OUR TIME The Gospel Of Progress Dystopia And Armageddon Imagining A Posthuman World Summary Bibliography ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS) Defining STS: Science And Technology Studies Or Science, Technology, And Society? Essential Concepts In STS STS And Posthumanism Summary Bibliography CAN WE PREDICT THE MIDDLE-TERM FUTURE? Early Predictors: A Brief History Of Prediction. Predicting StormsEconomics Bioscience What Models Tell Us Not-so-super Forecasters Summary Bibliography IS MIND UPLOADING A REAL POSSIBILITY? The Concept Of Mind Uploading The Problem With Ghosts The Problem With Branches Summary Bibliography THE PREHISTORY OF THE POSTHUMAN The Transhumanized Human: The Posthuman Of The Fourteenth Century Early Modern Precedents: Intelligent Tools- Humans Extending Beyond Their Bodies Teilhard De Chardin: The Internet Of Human Minds McLuhan: A Global Village Connected By A Web Of Electric Media Summary Bibliography PHARMACEUTICALS. The Mid-twentieth-century Emergence Of NeuropharmacologyPharmaceutical Regulation And The Tranquilizer Era Cosmetic Psychopharmacology And Neurology Pharmaceuticalization Of Life And Health Pharmacological Optimism Pharmaceutical Cyborgs Posthumanism, Feminism, And The New Materialism Pharmaceutical Personhood And Performance Drugs As Tools For Posthuman Selfhood Summary Bibliography BIOELECTRONICS The Body Electric The Body Cybernetic The Body Electronic The Body Photonic Prosthetic Gods Summary Bibliography GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS How Genes Help To Make You Who You Are. Nature And NurtureToday's State Of The Art In Human Genetic Interventions The Possibility Of Designer Babies Knowing That You Were Partially Designed Epigenetics: A New Pathway For Genetic Modification? Artificial Chromosomes? A Superhuman Civilization Of Genetically Modified Humans Summary Bibliography REJUVENATION AND RADICALLY INCREASED HEALTH SPANS The Three Stages Of The Superlongevity Revolution The Global Mission To Extend The Human Life Span The Ultrahuman Phenomenon: Expanding And Transforming Human Potential Ultrahuman Or Transhuman. Adjusting To The Superlongevity RevolutionSummary Bibliography RUNAWAY AI The Singularity Defined What Is Exponential Growth? Singularities In Mathematics And Physics How Will The Singularity Be Achieved? Why The Singularity May Never Be Reached Implications Of The Technological Singularity The End Of Humanity? Summary Bibliography A SKEPTIC'S PERSPECTIVE: IS THIS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN? A Skeptic Weighs In The Fallacy Of Technological Determinism A Middle Way Between Techno-enthusiasm And Techno-skepticism Summary Bibliography BUDDHIST UPLOADS Self/no-self Woman/man.