Keywords:
Artificial intelligence.
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Humanism.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780192653185
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6882973
DDC:
128.2
Language:
English
Note:
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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Embodied Freedom -- External Objections -- The Compatibilist Counter Position -- Immanent Objections -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Brain World or Life World? Critique of Neuroconstructivism -- Introduction -- Bodily Being-in-the-World: The Coextension of Lived Body and Physical Body -- The Locus of Pain -- Conclusion: Life-World and Neuroscience -- References -- 7 Perception and Reality: Sketch of an Interactive Realism -- Introduction -- Perception as Interaction -- The Objectifying Power of Perception -- The Implicit Intersubjectivity of Perception -- Genesis of Intersubjective Perception -- Subjectivation of Perception in Schizophrenia -- Summary -- References -- C. Psychiatry and Society -- 8 Psychiatry between Psyche and Brain -- Introduction -- Reductionist Assumptions and their Verification -- Psychiatry as Relational Medicine: An Integrative Concept -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Embodiment and Personal Identity in Dementia -- Introduction -- Personal Identity -- Body Memory -- Dementia and Personal Identity -- Dementia as a Loss of Reflexivity and Meta-Perspective -- Body Memory in Dementia -- Relational versus Embodied View of the Person in Dementia -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 The Cyclical Time of the Body and the Linear Time of Modernity -- Introduction -- The Processes of Life and their Cyclical Time -- The Cyclical Structure of Body Memory -- Cyclical and Linear Time -- Individual and Collective Formation of the Linear Order of Time -- Conflicts between Cyclical and Linear Orders of Time -- Conclusion -- References -- Text References (English papers) -- Index.
