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In Defence of the Human Being - Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology (Hardcover)
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In Defence of the Human Being - Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology (Hardcover)
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With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of
the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes,
the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data
and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves "in the image of our
machines", and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains
to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of
human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human
evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the
human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our
corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a
self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only
as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the
Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a
reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of
science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and
enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor
brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with
others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial
intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality,
neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the
accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an
increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting
across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new
book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to
the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that
will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st
century.
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