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Post-Human Futures: Human Enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory book cover

1st Edition

Post-Human Futures Human Enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory

Edited By Mark Carrigan, Douglas V. Porpora Copyright 2021
186 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume engages with post-humanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we... Read more

1. Being Human (or What?) in the Digital Matrix Land: The Construction of the Humanted

Pierpaolo Donati

2. Being Human as an Option: How to Rescue Personal Ontology from Transhumanism, and (Above All) Why Bother

Andrea M. Maccarini

3. Perplexity Logs: On Routinized Certainty Work and Social Consequences of Seeking Advice from an Artificial Intelligence

Emmanuel Lazega

4. Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Social Care in Aging Societies: Who or What Will Care for Us in the Future?

Jamie Morgan

5. Why Should Enhanced and Unenhanced Humans Care for Each Other?

Ismael Al-Amoudi and Gazi Islam

6. Can Humans and AI Robots be Friends?

Margaret S. Archer

7. Humanity’s End: Where Will We Be in a Million Years?

Douglas V. Porpora

Biography

Mark Carrigan is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Douglas V. Porpora is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Communication at Drexel University, USA.

"The book contributes to debates about the dualism of structure and agency which have their origins in (critical) realism. Post-Human Futures: Human Enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory (Carrigan and Porpora 2021) distinguishes between the epistemological and the ontological realms and establishes a new humanism that will be meaningful to praxis. "
-Birgul Ulutas, Postdigital Science and Education

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