Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity by Asher Seidel

By Asher Seidel

Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the potential of expanding the physiological and mental capacities of people to the purpose that they're not biologically, psychologically, or socially human. The move is from the human throughout the trans-human, to the post-human. The tone is positive; Seidel argues that such an evolution will be of confident worth more commonly.

Seidel's preliminary argument helps the necessity for a complete moral conception, the good fortune of which might parallel that of a large-scale medical revolution, akin to Newtonian mechanics. He elaborates the flow from the improved-but-still-human to the post-human, and philosophically examines speculated examples of post-human different types of existence, together with indefinitely prolonged life-span, parallel realization, altered notion, a-sociality, and a-sexuality.

Inhuman Thoughts is directed at these attracted to philosophical questions about human nature and the simplest existence given the probabilities of that nature. Seidel's total argument is that the main passable solution to the latter query contains a transcendence of the current confines of human nature.

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