In Defense of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology Thomas Fuchs

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192898191
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192898197
• Author(s): Thomas Fuchs

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.

Table contents:

Introduction
Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, Virtuality
1:Human and Artificial Intelligence: A Clarification
2:Beyond the Human? A Critique of Transhumanism
3:The Virtual Other: Empathy in the Age of Virtuality
Brain, Person, and Reality
4:Person and Brain: Against Cerebrocentrism
5:Embodied Freedom: a Libertarian Conception
6:Brain World or Life World? Critique of Neuroconstructivism
7:Perception and Reality: Sketch of an Interactive Realism
Psychiatry and Society
8:Psychiatry Between Psyche and Brain
9:Embodiment and Personal Identity in Dementia
10:The Cyclical Time of the Body and the Linear Time of Modernity
References
Name Index
Subject Index

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