Kurzweil, R: Spiritualities, ethics, and implications of hum
Language: English
Published by Vernon Press, 2019
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Über den AutorrnrnRay Kurzweil is one of the world s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists,nwith a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called the restlessngenius by The Wall Street Journal and the ultimate thinking mac.
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- Title
- Kurzweil, R: Spiritualities, ethics, and implications of hum
- Author
- Kurzweil, Ray|Trothen, Tracy J.
- Publisher
- Vernon Press
- Publication year
- 2019
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- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1622738233
- ISBN 13
- 9781622738236
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By taking a religiously and spiritually literature approach, this volume gets the heart of several emerging ethical issues crucial to both human identity and personhood beyond the human as technology advances in the areas of human enhancement and artificial intelligence (AI). Several significant questions are addressed by the contributors, such as: How far should we go in improving our biological selves? How long should we aspire to live? What are fair and just human enhancements? When will AIs become people? What does AI spirituality consist of? Can AIs do more than project humour and emotions? What are the religious undertones of these high technology quests for better AI and improved human existence? Established and emerging voices explore these questions, and more, in Spiritualities, ethics, and implications of human enhancement and artificial intelligence.
This volume will be of interest to university students and researchers absorbed by issues surrounding spiritualities, human enhancement, and artificial intelligence; while also providing points for reflection for the wider public as these topics become increasingly important to our common future.
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About the Author
Tracy J. Trothen is a professor of ethics at Queen's University, jointly appointed to the School of Religion and the School of Rehabilitation Therapy where she teaches in the graduate Aging and Health Program. She is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada, a certified Supervisor-Educator in Clinical Spiritual Health (CASC), and a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO). Trothen's areas of research and teaching specialization include: embodiment, biomedical and social ethics, Christian theology, spiritual health, aging, human enhancement technologies, and sport. Trothen is the author of Spirituality, Sport, and Doping: More than Just a Game (2018). Her other recent books include Winning the Race? Religion, Hope, and Reshaping the Sport Enhancement Debate (2015), and the anthology Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values, and Morality co-edited with Calvin Mercer (2017). She is currently at work, with Calvin Mercer, on a study guide tentatively entitled Living Healthy for 500 Years and Other Technological Enhancements: Heaven or Hell? Trothen is a member of the American Academy of Religion's Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit Steering Committee.
Christopher Hrynkow received his PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a ThD in Christian Ecological Ethics from the University of Toronto. He is an associate professor in Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, where he teaches courses in Religious Studies, Catholic Studies, Peace Studies, and Critical Perspective on Social Justice and the Common Good. He also serves as the founding director of the Centre for Faith, Justice, and Reason at the college, and is Department Head and Undergraduate Chair of Religion and Culture for the University of Saskatchewan.
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