Post-Human Futures
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"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. "
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-Birgul Ulutas, Postdigital Science and Education
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 are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780815392781
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"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. "
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-Birgul Ulutas, Postdigital Science and Education