- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Intellect Books; Reissue edition (16 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841502901
- ISBN-13: 978-1841502908
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.3 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,114,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sharp, lucid and careful tour around technology's reassemblage of the body...an inviting introduction into the 20th Century cyborg continuum.
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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 'The End of Man'. In this book Pepperell suggests that if we are capable of creating entities that exceed our own skills and intellect then the consequences for humanity are almost inconceivable. We must now face up to the possibility that attributes like intelligence and consciousness may be synthesized 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 theories about nature and the operation of the universe arising from sophisticated computer modeling demonstrate the interconnections between all things in reality where previously we had seen only separations. The ideas presented in this book have implications for traditional views of the human condition, consciousness, the way we look at art and for some of the oldest problems in philosophy.
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In his book Minds, Brains and Science the philosopher John Searle declares "Mental phenomena, all mental phenomena whether conscious or unconscious, visual or auditory, pains, tickles, itches, thoughts, indeed all our mental life, are caused by processes going on in the brain." Read the first page
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In his book Minds, Brains and Science the philosopher John Searle declares "Mental phenomena, all mental phenomena whether conscious or unconscious, visual or auditory, pains, tickles, itches, thoughts, indeed all our mental life, are caused by processes going on in the brain." Read the first page
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