In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology

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...

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Main Author: Fuchs, Thomas (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press USA - OSO 2021
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520 |a 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. 
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