In Defence of the Human Being

• Verfasst von: Fuchs, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: In Defence of the Human Being
• Titelzusatz: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: 1 online resource (273 pages)
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-0-19-265318-5
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1809140854

Abstract

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being appears more and more as a product of data and algorithms. The book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to current scientific, technological and cultural developments.

Abstract

cover -- In Defense of the Human Being -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Humanism of Embodiment -- Acknowledgments -- References -- A. Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, Virtuality -- 1 Human and Artificial Intelligence: A Clarification -- Introduction: The World of Data -- The Digitization of the World -- Subjectivity and Its Simulation -- Persons are Not Programs -- Programs are Not Persons -- Robots, Androids, and Artificial Life (AL) -- Conclusion: Simulation and Original -- References -- 2 Beyond the Human? A Critique of Transhumanism -- Introduction: Between Naturalism and Culturalism -- The Idea of Perfectibility -- Can Human Nature be Improved? -- Cognitive Skills -- Happiness and Morality -- Aging and Death -- The Contradictions of Posthumanism -- Mind Uploading or Transfer of Consciousness -- Critique of Functionalism -- Critique of Neuro-​Reductionism -- Transhumanism as Neo-​Gnosticism -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Virtual Other: Empathy in the Age of Virtuality -- Introduction -- Empathy and Virtual Reality -- Primary, Implicit, or Intercorporeal Empathy -- Extended, Explicit or Imaginative Empathy -- Fictional Empathy -- Interim Summary -- Virtualization in the Present -- Phantomization -- Disembodied Communication -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- B. Brain, Person, and Reality -- 4 Person and Brain: Against Cerebrocentrism -- Introduction -- Critique of the Cerebral Subject -- Subjectivity and Intentionality -- Embodiment -- Interpersonality -- Critique of Localizationism -- Critique of Neuroimaging -- Holism of Consciousness -- Personhood as Embodied Subjectivity -- Brain, Body, and Environment -- Brain Transplantation -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Embodied Freedom: A Libertarian Position -- Introduction -- Can Brains make Decisions? -- Freedom as a Personal Ability.