Religion and Human Enhancement Death, Values, and Morality [Hardcover]

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history.

Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.

1.?Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection

Section 1: Common Ground between Transhumanism and Religions

2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanisms Religious Philosophy

4.?Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism

5.?Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement

6.?A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence

Section 2:??Desires and Values

7.?Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring

8.?What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire and Aversion in Transhuman Visions

9.?Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation

10.??Have You Believed Because You Have Seen? Transhumanist Qualms about Enhancement of Religious Experience through Alterations to the Visual Field

Section 3: Moral Bioenhancement?

11.?The Myth of Moral Bioenhancement: An Evolutionary AnthropololŠ