The path to posthumanity : 21st century technology and its radical implications for mind, society and reality /
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Bethesda, MD :
Academica Press,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST; CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE; CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS; CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1; CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL; CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS; CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY; CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS; CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY; CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE; CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION; CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING?
- CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISMCHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST; CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES; CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.