RT Book
T1 Virtual immortality - god, evolution and the singularity in post- and transhumanism
T2 Kulturen der Gesellschaft
JF Kulturen der Gesellschaft
A1 Krüger, Oliver 1973-
A2 Jones, Ali
A2 Knight, Paul 1949-
LA English
PP Bielefeld
PB transcript
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1693320908
AB "In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient to process information and too inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, post-humanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Kruger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 319-347
CN B842.5
SN 9783837650594
SN 3837650596
K1 Posthumanism
K1 Transhumanism
K1 Immortality
K1 Philosophical Anthropology
K1 Humanism
K1 Literaturwissenschaft
K1 Transhumanismus
K1 Posthumanismus
K1 Transhumanisme
K1 Immortalité
K1 Anthropologie philosophique
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology of Religion