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Author Mahon, Peter, 1971-
Title Posthumanism : a guide for the perplexed / Peter Mahon.
Publisher London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.



Descript 352 pages.
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Contents 1 Introduction: Posthumanism-A Dialogue of Sorts 2 Cybernetics, Information, Prosthetics, Genetics Introduction to techno-scientific posthumanism: Trust, but verify Cybernetics and information Neuroprosthetics Genetic manipulations 3 Artificial Intelligences An (all-too-brief) brief history of artificial intelligence Machine learning: Some basics Google DeepMind's DQN Agent 'I, Hector' IBM Watson 4 Socio-cultural Posthumanism The perils of representation (science and technology) Post . . . human: The entanglements of text Signs of life: Self-reflexiveness. . . art . . . posthumanism 5 Philosophical Posthumanism Animals and robots Animal . . . human . . . machine: An auto-affective posthumanism Transhumanism and singularity 6 Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Digital Humanities and 'Post-humanities' Notes Works Cited Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781474236782 (e-book)
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Author Mahon, Peter, 1971-
Subject Humanism -- History.
Humanism -- Forecasting.
Descript 352 pages.
Content text
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Contents 1 Introduction: Posthumanism-A Dialogue of Sorts 2 Cybernetics, Information, Prosthetics, Genetics Introduction to techno-scientific posthumanism: Trust, but verify Cybernetics and information Neuroprosthetics Genetic manipulations 3 Artificial Intelligences An (all-too-brief) brief history of artificial intelligence Machine learning: Some basics Google DeepMind's DQN Agent 'I, Hector' IBM Watson 4 Socio-cultural Posthumanism The perils of representation (science and technology) Post . . . human: The entanglements of text Signs of life: Self-reflexiveness. . . art . . . posthumanism 5 Philosophical Posthumanism Animals and robots Animal . . . human . . . machine: An auto-affective posthumanism Transhumanism and singularity 6 Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Digital Humanities and 'Post-humanities' Notes Works Cited Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781474236782 (e-book)
Author Mahon, Peter, 1971-
Subject Humanism -- History.
Humanism -- Forecasting.

Subject Humanism -- History.
Humanism -- Forecasting.
Descript 352 pages.
Content text
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Contents 1 Introduction: Posthumanism-A Dialogue of Sorts 2 Cybernetics, Information, Prosthetics, Genetics Introduction to techno-scientific posthumanism: Trust, but verify Cybernetics and information Neuroprosthetics Genetic manipulations 3 Artificial Intelligences An (all-too-brief) brief history of artificial intelligence Machine learning: Some basics Google DeepMind's DQN Agent 'I, Hector' IBM Watson 4 Socio-cultural Posthumanism The perils of representation (science and technology) Post . . . human: The entanglements of text Signs of life: Self-reflexiveness. . . art . . . posthumanism 5 Philosophical Posthumanism Animals and robots Animal . . . human . . . machine: An auto-affective posthumanism Transhumanism and singularity 6 Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Digital Humanities and 'Post-humanities' Notes Works Cited Index
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781474236782 (e-book)

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